Laravel - controller executed before everything else

Question

I'm using Laravel web framework for a PHP project. I have a question about this framework, the documentation (which is poor), and the community from IRC doesn't helped me.

I want to create a controller which will be executed before any other controller. I want in this controller to pass some variables to view. How is this possible?

Thank you.

Usually only one controller is executed per request. It sounds like you could make use of view composers or using View::share in conjunction with route filters. And there was no need to start your question off with those remarks. Be grateful for help, it's not always a given. I'm on IRC now and there are plenty of others around too. Jump back on. — Jason Lewis

Muhammad Usman Muhammad Usman · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-11T15:51:47

You can do such thing in the before filter, in routes.php (, for Laravel 4 its filters.php).

Or if you need to do it in controller then create a BaseController which should extend Controller, in Laravel 3 you should have this already, base.php. And all your controllers should extend this BaseController, in its __construct or in before filter do this for ease:

View::share('key', 'value');

And use it as $key in your views.

Note, View::share can be problematic sometimes.

Laravel - controller executed before everything else

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