Share value from database in all view in laravel 5 - laravel-5

Question

I'm new to laravel. I'm trying to create a simple app with some variable that shouold be in every view. So I create a setting model, with many fields and a unique slug field. Now to share this variable from database I've created a middleware:
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
$site_settings = Cache::remember('settings', 60, function() {
return Setting::all();
});
view()->share('site_settings', $site_settings);
return $next($request);
}
Now to show this variable in view I have:
{{{ $site_settings->get(0)->value }}}
This works great, but I'd like to have a more intuitive code in my view, accessing the setting by slug. Something like:
{{{ $site_settings->findBySlug("MYVARIABLE")->value }}}
So it's possible to filter collection by an unique slug?

Answer 1

Info:
This assumes your settings table structure is as following:
----------------------
| id | key | value |
----------------------
| 1 | title | foo |
| 2 | asd | bar |
| 3 | qqq | zzz |
----------------------
Steps
Step 1: Put the following newCollection method into App\Setting model:
class Settings extends ... {
public function newCollection(array $models = array())
{
return new \App\Collections\SettingsCollection($models);
}
}
Step 2: Put the following lines into App\Collections\SettingsCollection class:
<?php namespace App\Collections;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection;
class SettingsCollection extends Collection {
public function get($name, $default = null)
{
return array_first($this->items, function($itemKey, $model) use ($name)
{
return $model->key == $name;
}, $default)->value;
}
}
Step 3: Enjoy! This is the collection I'm currently using. Instead of this:
$settings = Setting::all();
$settings->where('key', 'key_name')->first()->value;
You can simply just do this:
$settings = Setting::all();
echo $settings->get('key_name'); // returns value of the setting with the key 'title'

Answer 2

Maybe a query scope would fit.
In your model:
public function scopeFindBySlug($slug){
return $query->where('slug','=', $slug);
}
So you will have: $site_settings->findBySlug('your_slug')->get();