Laravel 5, View::Share

Question

I\'m trying to do a view::share(\'current_user\', Auth::User()); but in laravel 5 i can\'t find where to do this, in L4 you could do this in the baseController,

Answer 1

I am using Laravel 5.0.28, view::share('current_user', Auth::User()) doesn't work anymore because this issue https://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/6130

What I do instead is, first create a new service provider using artisan.

php artisan make:provider ComposerServiceProvider

Then add ComposerServiceProvider to config/app.php providers array

//...
'providers' => [
    //...
    'App\Providers\ComposerServiceProvider',
]
//...

Then open app/Providers/ComposerServiceProvider.php that just created, inside boot method add the following

/**
 * Bootstrap the application services.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function boot()
{
    View::composer('*', function($view)
    {
        $view->with('current_user', Auth::user());
    });
}

Finally, import View and Auth facade

use Auth, View;

For more information, see http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/views#view-composers