Let’s get back to views. There are a few more concepts that we should cover, like how do you share data with all views? We’ll recap what we’ve done so far and take a look at an another option.

How Have We Passed Data to Views So Far?

The second argument of our view method accepts an array of data. In the example below, we grabbed the data from the database and passed it to our view.

public function index()
{
    $cars = PersonalCar::with(['brand', 'model'])->orderBy('year', 'desc')->get();

    return view('personalcars/index', [
        'title' => 'Personal Cars',
        'cars' => $cars,
    ]);
}

If you don’t like to pass an array of data, you may utilize the with method and pass the key/value pair as strings.

public function index()
{
    $cars = PersonalCar::with(['brand', 'model'])->orderBy('year', 'desc')->get();

    return view('personalcars/index')
        ->with('title', 'Personal Cars')
        ->with('cars', $cars);
}

How Do You Share Data With All Views?

Using the View::share method allows for the developer to specify which content they want to share with all of the views:

View::share(‘key’, ‘value’);

The question now is, where do you put this? These go into a service provider. The simplest place is the boot method of the AppServiceProvider but we can generate another service provider and place the data there. For this instance, we’ll add the information to our App\Providers\AppServiceProvider and we’ll cover how to create service providers later.

If you check your AppServiceProvider you’ll notice that it’s blank. It’s just a skeleton for us to fill out.

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * Register any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function register()
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Bootstrap any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot()
    {
        //
    }
}

Let’s say that we want to share a title to each of our views for whatever reason. We can specify that title in our boot method. Make sure that you import your View facade first in order to utilize it.

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\View;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * Register any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function register()
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Bootstrap any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot()
    {
        View::share('title', 'Laravel Tutorials');
    }
}

Let’s take it for a spin. First, we’ll need to create a view: resources/views/share-data-with-all-views/index.blade.php