Global variable in laravel 4

Question

I was wondering how to do a global variable to save me few lines of copy and pasting this lines. Array it probably and put them in one variable instead? I want to use this

Answer 1

You should create an object to do that.

Create a provider object with those properties, email, name, etc and instantiate it and set the properties values, like:

$provider = new Provider();

$provider->email = Auth::user()->email;

And then you save the object in your session:

$_SESSION['provider'] = $provider;

I'm not familiar with Laravel and I don't know if it's a good practice to work directly with the Auth object but a simpler solution would be:

$_SESSION['provider'] = Auth::user();

Also be aware of working with sensitive information on your session :)