# Views

Next, we'll create a simple view to display our user data. Views live in the app/views directory and contain the HTML of your application. We're going to place two new views in this directory: layout.blade.php and users.blade.php. First, let's create our layout.blade.php file:

<html>
    <body>
        <h1>Laravel Quickstart</h1>

        @yield('content')
    </body>
</html>

Next, we'll create our users.blade.php view:

    @extends('layout')

    @section('content')
        Users!
    @stop

Some of this syntax probably looks quite strange to you. That's because we're using Laravel's templating system: Blade. Blade is very fast, because it is simply a handful of regular expressions that are run against your templates to compile them to pure PHP. Blade provides powerful functionality like template inheritance, as well as some syntax sugar on typical PHP control structures such as if and for. Check out the Blade documentation for more details.

Now that we have our views, let's return it from our /users route. Instead of returning Users! from the route, return the view instead:

    Route::get('users', function()
    {
        return View::make('users');
    });

Wonderful! Now you have setup a simple view that extends a layout. Next, let's start working on our database layer.

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