Laravel access data from all views

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In all of my views I am already able to access {{Auth::user()->name}} by default, I am trying to add the ability to access {{Profile::user()->...}} in my views as well but I am having some trouble. I don't really want to use view composers if I dont have to as this post suggests because it looks like I will need to list each view manually. Instead I opted in to use the AppServiceProvider boot method listed in the docs. The problem is I am still not able to call {{ Profile::user()->title }} for example. I am getting the following error:

ErrorException in AppServiceProvider.php line 19:
Non-static method App\Profile::user() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context

Here is my AppServiceProvider.php

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
use View;
use App\Profile;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * Bootstrap any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot()
    {
        //
        View::share('user', Profile::user());
    }

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

Here is my model Profile.php

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Profile extends Model
{
    //
    protected $fillable = [
        'bio',
        'linkedin_url',
        'facebook_url',
        'twitter_username',
        'title',
        'profile_image',
        'user_id',
    ];
    public function user()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo('user');
    }
}

What am I doing wrong? How can I have access to users profile data in all views? Can I see an example?

Does the User model have the relationship to Profile? You can then use {{ Auth::user()->profile->myAttribute }} — Mei Gwilym, Dec 21 '16 at 16:19

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 21 '16 at 17:33

Both @Saumya and @martindilling are correct; you're binding to the $user variable in the service provider you're using. You just need to make your user() method static to access it the way you want:

public static function user(){
    if (auth()->user()) return auth()->user()->profile;
}

If you use that, then you don't need the View binding if you don't want it. You can just use {{ Profile::user() }} in any Blade template. But this is also kind of silly, because now you've overwritten your relationship method name.

If you really want super-easy access to the current user's profile, why not make a helper method you could access from anywhere? currentUserProfile() or something? I don't mind keeping a file with some shortcut methods for each project, but you have to have good discipline when adding things to it otherwise your code will quickly become unreadable.

I find the second answer here to be a pretty clear way to add your own custom helper methods.

Also a good answer,I had everything else working with the relationship, I just did not know it was as simple as calling `auth()->user()->profile` in my view (not realizing it was attached to user and thinking I needed a composer view, helper function or service provider to accomplish this) but I learned from your answer as well so thank you — Derek, Dec 21 '16 at 21:07

Saumya Rastogi · Answer 2 · 2016-12-21T17:22:10.190

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According to your code, you are calling a non-static method statically. You shouldn't be doing that. Instead you should use a profile, for which you want a particular user like this:

View::share('user', Profile::find(1)->user);

You can also get all the users with profile like this & your models should look like this:

class User extends Model {

    public function profile() {
        return $this->hasOne(Profile::class);
    }

}

class Profile extends Model {

    public function user() {
        return $this->belongsTo(User::class);
    }

}

View::share('user', User::with('profile')->get()); // <----- Get all users with profile

Or if you want to get the profile of the authenticated user, you can do it like this:

View::share('user', auth()->user); // <---- Gets the authenticated User
View::share('user_profile', auth()->user()->profile); // <---- Gets the authenticated User's profile

Hope this helps!

edited Dec 21 '16 at 17:22

answered Dec 21 '16 at 16:10

Saumya Rastogi

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When I try using `View::share('user_profile', auth()->user->profile);` in the boot method I get the following error: `Undefined property: Illuminate\Auth\AuthManager::$user` – Derek Dec 21 '16 at 17:21
Thank you, now I get the following error: `Trying to get property of non-object` I assume it is the `profile` part of `View::share('user_profile', auth()->user()->profile);` I made sure my profile model has user method and user model has profile method like your example above. – Derek Dec 21 '16 at 17:44
According to my code everything is fine, make sure that your `profile` table has the column `user_id` and the relationships are properly used & defined! – Saumya Rastogi Dec 21 '16 at 17:49

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 21 '16 at 16:10

When you use View::share('user', Profile::user()); your profile user would be available in the view as {{ $user }} :)

And yes the error message you get is because of the reason Saumya Rastogi has written, that you need to get the user for a specific profile :)

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 21 '16 at 17:40

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You don't need to share this variable at all since you only want to get profile of user (you always have user data loaded) and it's one-to-one relation. Just add proper relation:

public function profile()
{
    return $this->hasOne('\App\Profile');
}

And then use it anywhere in the app:

auth()->user()->profile->city

If you'll share the variable, you'll add second query to all views and in the real app you absolutely don't want to do that.

answered Dec 21 '16 at 17:40

Alexey Mezenin

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This is the one that got me what I needed, thank you so much – Derek Dec 21 '16 at 21:06

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