Laravel: Passing default variables to view

Question

In Laravel, we all pass data to our view in pretty much the same way

$data = array(
    \'thundercats\' => \'Hoooooooooooh!\'
);
return View::make(\'myawe         


        

Answer 1

Yep there absolutely is a way - see here on view composers.

You can use that to add data to a view or set of views.

Answer 2

Use View Composers

View composers are callbacks or class methods that are called when a view is created. If you have data that you want bound to a given view each time that view is created throughout your application, a view composer can organize that code into a single location. Therefore, view composers may function like "view models" or "presenters".

Defining A View Composer :

View::composer('profile', function($view)
{
    $view->with('count', User::count());
});

Now each time the profile view is created, the count data will be bound to the view. In your case, it could be for id :

    View::composer('myawesomeview', function($view)
    {
        $view->with('id', 'someId');
    });

So the $id will be available to your myawesomeview view each time you create the view using :

View::make('myawesomeview', $data);

You may also attach a view composer to multiple views at once:

View::composer(array('profile','dashboard'), function($view)
{
    $view->with('count', User::count());
});

If you would rather use a class based composer, which will provide the benefits of being resolved through the application IoC Container, you may do so:

View::composer('profile', 'ProfileComposer');

A view composer class should be defined like so:

class ProfileComposer {
    public function compose($view)
    {
        $view->with('count', User::count());
    }
}

Documentation and you can read this article too.

Answer 3

@enchance, as an alternative to using '*', as mentioned in your comment, perhaps a View::share would help you too. From the Laravel documentation:

You may also share a piece of data across all views:

View::share('name', 'Steve');

Excerpt is from http://laravel.com/docs/responses

Answer 4

There are couple of ways, so far I have been experiment with some.

1.Use singleton, you can put it in routes.php

App::singleton('blog_tags', function() {
  return array(
    'Drupal'    => 'success',
        'Laravel'   => 'danger',
        'Symfony'   => 'dark',
        'Wordpress' => 'info'
    );
});

2.Use Settings bundle, download here. https://github.com/Phil-F/Setting. You can put this in controller or template.

Setting::set('title', 'Scheduler | Mathnasium');

3.Use View share, pretty much use it in your template

Controller: Views::share('theme_path', 'views/admin/');
Template: <link href="{{ $theme_path }}/assets/bootstrap.min.css"/>

4.My current sample setup, I wrote a construct in HomeController.

public function __construct()
{
    // Define a theme namespace folder under public
    View::addLocation('../public/views/admin');
    View::addNamespace('admin', '../public/views/admin');
    View::share('theme_path', 'views/admin/');


    // Set default page title
    Setting::set('title', 'Scheduler | Mathnasium');
    Setting::set('description', 'daily customer scheduler.');
    Setting::set('keywords', ['Reservation', 'Planner']);
    Setting::set('page-title', '');
}