Passing a variable to a master template in laravel - laravel

Question

In laravel i have defined a route like this
Route::get('/', array(){
'as' => 'index',
'uses' => 'HomeController#index'
});
The function index() in the HomeController contains
public function index(){
$index = new ExampleModel;
$data = $index->getExampleList();
return View::make('public.index');
}
Now the problem is i have a master layout called happypath inside layouts folder in my views which yields this public.index content and i need to pass this $data to layouts.happypath. How do i do this ?

Answer 1

You can use a view composer for example:
namespace App\Providers;
use App\ExampleModel;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
class ComposerServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
protected $exampleModel;
public function __construct(ExampleModel $exampleModel)
{
$this->exampleModel = $exampleModel;
}
public function boot()
{
view()->composer('layouts.happypath', function ($view) {
$view->with('publicIndex', $this->exampleModel->getExampleList());
});
}
public function register()
{
//
}
}
So, every time you use/render the layouts.happypath the $publicIndex variable will be attached within the layout. Also you need to add the ComposerServiceProvider class in your config/app.php file in the providers array. You may access/reference the data using $publicIndex variable in your layout. There are other ways like global shared $information using view()->share(...) method to share a peace of data all over the views but this may help you.

Answer 2

I could not figure out the ComposerServiceProvider View::composer thing. So i basically solved it like this in Laravel 4.2. Added this code to the BaseController.php
protected $menuList;
public function __construct() {
$response = API::pool([
['GET', API::url('level')],
]);
$index = new Index();
$index->setCourseList($response[0]->json()['Category']);
$result = $index->getCourseList();
View::share('result', $result); //This line shares the $result globally across all the views in laravel 4.2
}

Answer 3

This can be done with a Service Provider. You can either use an existing one or create a new one.
<?php
namespace App\Providers;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
use App\ExampleModel;
class ViewServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
public function boot()
{
$index = new ExampleModel;
$data = $index->getExampleList();
view()->share('public.index', $data);
}
public function register()
{
}
}
Source: EasyLaravel.com