Laravel 5 handle return from controller

Question

I have an application that has many views that use need to inject some code into specific sections of the view. In a previous application I had used the root controller to do this and used special functions however it kind of changes the normal workflow of creating a laravel application to do it that way.

Basically say you have a create function

public function create()
{
   return view('something');
}

And you want to add something to a specific section, normally you would do this in the view and add any data needed to the call for the view. I want to do this in the controller but since any function returning a view would show the same thing in this case I want to simplify it a bit.

I tried looking but I could not find anything about post processing on a controller function, is there anything like that? Here is an example.

public function beforeRender($instance)
{
   if ($instance instanceof View)
   {
      $instance->getFactory()->inject('context-menu', $someData);
   }

   return $instance;
}

The beforeRender function would run after the create function in the controller and alter the return, allowing for a special return for anything with a view.

So my question is if there is anything like this in laravel 5 (or similar) and how I might do it. In a previous app I had remade how laravel handled controllers but I want to avoid doing that this time.

Yauheni Prakopchyk · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-02 21:22:58Z

1

If I'm not mistaken, the feature is to be implemented in Laravel 5.1. You may grab dev version or wait until release is out.

Service Injection in Laravel docs:

@inject('metrics', 'App\Services\MetricsService')

<div>
    Monthly Revenue: {{ $metrics->monthlyRevenue() }}.
</div>

You may check Code Composers as well. The approach is a bit different, keeping views spick and span:

public function compose(View $view)
{
    $view->with('count', $this->users->count());
}

edited Jun 2, 2015 at 21:22

answered Jun 2, 2015 at 20:40

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3 Comments

Jordan Ramstad Over a year ago

I don't think its what I am looking for but it does get my mind working in different ways to think about it. I want to avoid adding the same blocks of code for sections that are the same for multiple controller functions.

Yauheni Prakopchyk Over a year ago

You may check Code Composers as well. The approach is a bit different, keeping views spick and span.

Jordan Ramstad Over a year ago

Thank you! I can never thing of the right search terms for these things but that looks like its exactly what I am looking for, right down to using service providers to define them.

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