If section

check the pull-request

@ifsection allows patterns like this:

panel.blade.php

<div class="panel">

    @ifsection('header')
    <div class="panel-header">
        @yield('header')
    </div>
    @endifsection

    <div class="panel-content">
        @yield('content')
    </div>

    @ifsection('footer')
    <div class="panel-footer">
        @yield('footer')
    </div>
    @endifsection

</div>

example-without-footer.blade.php

@extends('panel')

@section('header')
    This is the header
@endsection

@section('content')
    This is some content
@endsection

example-without-header.blade.php

@extends('panel')

@section('content')
    This is some content
@endsection

@section('footer')
    This is the footer
@endsection

It becomes much more useful when combined with @embed

page.blade.php

@embed('panel')
    @section('header')
        This is the header
    @endsection

    @section('content')
        This is some content
    @endsection
@endembed

I agree @ifsection is probably not the ideal solution to this specific problem. A helper function would be much better as it could be used as a param within other directives. I was unable to figure out how to make one that accomplished the same thing. Do you have any alternative ideas for implementing this pattern? or how it could be done with a helper function?