laravel - global variable for all controller and views

Question

In Laravel I have a table settings and i have fetched complete data from the table in the BaseController, as following

public function __construct() 
{
    // Fetch the Site Settings object
    $site_settings = Setting::all();
    View::share('site_settings', $site_settings);
}

Now i want to access $site_settings. in all other controllers and views so that i don't need to write the same code again and again, so anybody please tell me the solution or any other way so i can fetch the data from the table once and use it in all controllers and view.

Answer 1

Okay, I'm going to completely ignore the ridiculous amount of over engineering and assumptions that the other answers are rife with, and go with the simple option.

If you're okay for there to be a single database call during each request, then the method is simple, alarmingly so:

class BaseController extends Controller
{

    protected $site_settings;

    public function __construct() 
    {
        // Fetch the Site Settings object
        $this->site_settings = Setting::all();
        View::share('site_settings', $this->site_settings);
    }

}

Now providing that all of your controllers extend this BaseController, they can just do $this->site_settings.

If you wish to limit the amount of queries across multiple requests, you could use a caching solution as previously provided, but based on your question, the simple answer is a class property.