How to share a variable across all views?

Question

I want information about the system locale to be available in every view, so I could highlight whatever language is currently selected by a user. After some googling around,

Answer 1

For people with small project:

Firstly, The accepted answer is awesome!

For Laravel 5.2 users:

Just use the new blade directive @inject within your views like this

@inject('shared','App\Utilities\SharedWithView')

then you can use it: {{ $shared->functionName() }}

And SharedWithView is a simple class like this one:

namespace App\Utilities;

use App\Repositories\SomeRepositoryLikeArticlesRepository;

class SharedWithView {

    public function functionName() {
        $properNameHere = new SomeRepositoryLikeArticlesRepository();

        return $properNameHere->forEaxmpleGetMostViewedArticles( 10 );
    }

}