Laravel: Passing data to default.blade.php from base controller - laravel

Question

I have a base controller with a method to return a twitter feed to my view.
I want to move this in the view from the page view to the default blade to reduce redundancy as it will be appearing site wide. How do I pass data from the base controller to blade?
I can send it to my view from the page controller like so:
public function get_index()
{
..................
$this->layout->nest('content', 'home.index', array(
'tweets' => $this->get_tweet()
));
}
and in the view, output it like this:
if ($tweets)
{
foreach ($tweets as $tweet)
{
..............
I want to do all this from within default.blade.php and my Base_Contoller:
<?php
class Base_Controller extends Controller {
/**
* Catch-all method for requests that can't be matched.
*
* #param string $method
* #param array $parameters
* #return Response
*/
public function __call($method, $parameters)
{
return Response::error('404');
}
public function get_tweet()
{
...........
return $tweets;
}
}
How is this possible?
//////////////////////UPDATE/////////////////////////////
application/models/tweets.php
<?php
class Tweets {
public static function get($count = 3)
{
Autoloader::map(array(
'tmhOAuth' => path('app').
'libraries/tmhOAuth-master/tmhOAuth.php',
'tmhUtilities' => path('app').
'libraries/tmhOAuth-master/tmhUtilities.php'
));
$tmhOAuth = new tmhOAuth(array(
'consumer_key' => 'xxx',
'consumer_secret' => 'xxx',
'user_token' => 'xxxxx',
'user_secret' => 'xxxxx',
'curl_ssl_verifypeer' => false
));
$code = $tmhOAuth->request('GET',
$tmhOAuth->url('1.1/statuses/user_timeline'), array(
'screen_name' => 'xxx',
'count' => $count
));
$response = $tmhOAuth->response['response'];
$tweets = json_decode($response, true);
return $tweets;
}
}
application/views/widgets/tweets.blade.php
#foreach ($tweets)
test
#endforeach
application/views/layouts/default.blade.php
....
{{ $tweets }}
....
application/composers.php
<?php
View::composer('widgets.tweets', function($view)
{
$view->tweets = Tweets::get();
});
View::composer('layouts.default', function($view)
{
$view->nest('tweets', 'widgets.tweets');
});
application/controllers/base.php
<?php
class Base_Controller extends Controller {
/**
* Catch-all method for requests that can't be matched.
*
* #param string $method
* #param array $parameters
* #return Response
*/
public $layout = 'layouts.default';
public function __call($method, $parameters)
{
return Response::error('404');
}
}
application/controllers/home.php
<?php
class Home_Controller extends Base_Controller {
public $layout = 'layouts.default';
public $restful = true;
public function get_index()
{
Asset::add('modernizr', 'js/thirdparty/modernizr.js');
Asset::add('jquery',
'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js');
Asset::add('scripts', 'js/scripts.js');
$this->layout->title = 'title';
$this->layout->nest('content', 'home.index', array(
//'data' => $some_data
));
}
}
Is giving me an
Undefined variable: tweets
error

Answer 1

Step 1 - Make a view just for your tweets, let's call it widgets/tweets.blade.php, that will accept your $tweets data. This makes it very easy to cache the tweets view in the future if you want a little more performance. We also want a model that will generate the tweet data for you.
Step 2 - Pass the tweet data into your tweets view, let's use a View Composer for this so the logic is kept with (but outside) the view.
Step 3 - Create your default layout, let's call this layout/default.blade.php. This will accept $content and $tweets. We'll nest the tweets view with another View Composer. You can nest the $content in your controller actions.
Step 4 - Set the $layout on your Base_Controller.
Step 5 - Profit!
Note - If these are your first view composers then you'll need to include them in application/start.php
// application/models/tweets.php
class Tweets {
public static function get($count = 5)
{
// get your tweets and return them
}
}
// application/views/widgets/tweets.blade.php
#foreach ($tweets)
{{-- do something with your tweets --}}
#endforeach
// application/views/layouts/default.blade.php
<section class="main">{{ isset($content) ? $content : '' }}</section>
<aside class="widget widget-tweets">{{ $tweets }}</aside>
// application/composers.php
View::composer('widgets.tweets', function($view)
{
$view->tweets = Tweets::get();
});
View::composer('layouts.default', function($view)
{
$view->nest('tweets', 'widgets.tweets');
});
// application/start.php (at the bottom)
include path('app').'composers.php';
// application/controllers/base.php
class Base_Controller extends Controller {
public $layout = 'layouts.default';
}
// application/controllers/home.php
class Home_Controller extends Base_Controller {
public $restful = true;
public function get_index()
{
$this->layout->nest('content', 'home.welcome');
}
}

Answer 2

View::share('key', 'value');
in you view use (Blade syntax)
{{$key}}
or (PHP syntax)
echo $key;