global variable for all controller and views

Question

In Laravel I have a table settings and i have fetched complete data from the table in the BaseController, as following

public function __construct() 
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Answer 1

There are two options:

1. Create a php class file inside app/libraries/YourClassFile.php

   a. Any function you create in it would be easily accessible in all the views and controllers.

   b. If it is a static function you can easily access it by the class name.

   c. Make sure you inclued "app/libraries" in autoload classmap in composer file.

2. In app/config/app.php create a variable and you can reference the same using

   Config::get('variable_name');

Hope this helps.

Edit 1:

Example for my 1st point:

// app/libraries/DefaultFunctions.php

class DefaultFunctions{

    public static function getSomeValue(){
     // Fetch the Site Settings object
     $site_settings = Setting::all();
     return $site_settings; 
    }
}

//composer.json

"autoload": {
        "classmap": [
..
..
..  
        "app/libraries" // add the libraries to access globaly.
        ]
    }

 //YourController.php

   $default_functions  = new DefaultFunctions();
    $default_functions->getSomeValue();