Laravel 4 base/master view - laravel

Question

I've recently gotten some problems. There is an model from which I pull some data and things. There is a menu link that I want to be on every page I enter, so I've put it into the base/master view. But the problem is, I need to enter ->with blabla thing on every public function in every controller. How could I not do that? I mean is there anyway around it? I don't want to do that with thingy on every controller method/function. Here's my code:
#if ( Auth::guest() )
<li style="float: right;padding-right: 0">
<ul class="nav">
<li>
<a href="{{ URL::to('register') }}">
<i class="icon-black icon-plus">
</i>
<strong>
Register
</strong>
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="{{ URL::to('login') }}">
<i class="icon-black icon-lock">
</i>
<strong>
Log in
</strong>
</a>
</li>
</li>
</li>
</ul>
#else
<li class="divider-vertical">
</li>
<li style="float: right;padding-right: 0">
<div class="btn-group">
<div class="btn btn-primary">
<i class="icon-user">
</i>
{{ (Auth::user()->name) }}
</div>
<a class="btn btn-primary dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#">
<span class="icon-caret-down">
</span>
</a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li>
<a href="{{ URL::to('account/managment') }}">
<i class="icon-user">
</i>
Account Managment
</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="{{ URL::to('account/managment/change_credentials') }}">
<i class="icon-lock">
</i>
Change Password
</a>
</li>
<li class="divider">
</li>
<li>
<a href="{{ URL::to('account/logout') }}">
<i class="icon-off">
</i>
Log out
</a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
#endif

Answer 1

You can define a View Composer :
View::composer(array('your.first.view','your.second.view'), function($view)
{
$view->with('count', User::count());
});
Everytime you call your view, a user count will be bound to it automatically.
Edit:
About where to use it, it's up to you and it depends on your app, but you might use pp/start/global.php if you don't have a better place to put it. It just have to be executed before your those views.

Answer 2

#Antonio's answer is a good way to do this. You can also use View::share(); to accomplish this with a shorter code.
View::share(array(
'foo' => 'bar'
));