Laravel: how to pass a variable to my basic layout

Question

I am trying to pass a variable to my basic layout. This is because I need it in all pages. I thought that writing something like that on my BaseController

protected function setupLayout()
{
    if ( ! is_null($this->layout))
    {
        $footertext = MyText::where('status', 1);
        $this->layout = View::make($this->layout, ['footertext' =>$footertext ]);
        }
    }
}

And on my I thought that writing something like that on my main.blade.php could work.

 {{ $footertext }}.

Instead I having this error,

Undefined variable: footertext

and after two hours of looking around...I didn't find any solution. Any help is welcome.

Answer 1

Not long ago I was trying to do the same.

If you are using Laravel 5 you can edit the AppServiceProvider.php inside app/Providers and register a provider for this layout like:

public function boot()
{
  view()->composer('my.layout', function($view) {
    $myvar = 'test';
    $view->with('data', array('myvar' => $myvar));
  });
}

Now if you are using Laravel 4 I think it's more simple. In the app/filters.php:

View::composer('my.layout', function ($view) {
  $view->with('variable', $variable);
});

In both ways any variable you pass will be available to all templates that are extending the master template.

References:

https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/laravel-5-pass-variables-to-master-template https://coderwall.com/p/kqxdug/share-a-variable-across-views-in-laravel?p=1&q=author%3Aeuantor

Answer 2

For laravel 5.3 I am using in AppServiceProvider.php inside app/Providers

public function boot()
{
    view()->composer('layouts.master', function($view)
    {
        $view->with('variable', 'myvariable');
    });
}

Reference: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/laravel-5-pass-variables-to-master-template

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