How to declare global variables available to all Blade Files? [duplicate] - laravel

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I have products in a database that are essentially used on every single page. Instead of having to query the database, something like this:
$products = DB::table("products")->get();
And then passing it into view:
return view("site.products", array(
'products' => $products,
));
I don't want to do this for every view. Instead, I want $products to be available to ALL templates by default... so that I can do this:
#foreach ($products as $product)
... etc
How would I declare it in a global way to achieve this?

Answer 1

You can add below code in the boot method of AppServiceProvider
public function boot()
{
if (!$this->app->runningInConsole()) {
$products = DB::table("products")->get();
\View::share('products', $products);
}
}
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Answer 2

A recommended way of doing this is to add a middleware that you apply to all the routes that you want to affect.
Middleware
use Closure;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\View;
class GlobalVariablesMiddleware
{
$myVariable = "Value For Everyone";
View::share(['globalValue' => $myVariable]);
}
Add it to your kernel.php in the Http folder
protected $routeMiddleware = [
...
'myMiddleware' => \App\Http\Middleware\ GlobalVariablesMiddleware::class,
];
Once this is setup, you can easily apply it to individual routes or grouped ones to achieve what you are looking for
// Routes that will have the middleware
Route::middleware(['myMiddleware'])->group(function () {
// My first route that will have the global value
Route::resource('/profile', App\Http\Controllers\ProfileController::class);
// My second route that will have the global value
Route::resource('/posts', App\Http\Controllers\PostController::class);
});
By doing it this way, you can easily control the data in the future if you would chose not to have the data global.