How can i pass Category::all(); to every view

Question

I will use the category a lot of places in my views to show, is there a way to insert somewhere so that I can use it in every view without getting this error Undefined variable: categories

At the moment i am doing it like this for every view:

$categories=Category::all();
 return view('posts.create',compact('categories'));
$categories=Category::all();
 return view('posts.edit',compact('categories'));

and so on..

This is a step-by-step doc for view::share https://scotch.io/tutorials/sharing-data-between-views-using-laravel-view-composers — Digvijay, Jun 30 '20 at 09:26
Does this answer your question? [How to pass data to all views in Laravel 5?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28608527/how-to-pass-data-to-all-views-in-laravel-5) — OMR, Jun 30 '20 at 09:30

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 30 '20 at 09:24

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You could do something like this in the constructor of your base controller

$categories=Category::all();
View::share('categories', $categories);

Here is more info in the laravel docs

https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/views#sharing-data-with-all-views

answered Jun 30 '20 at 09:24

bumperbox

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 30 '20 at 09:27

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You need AppServiceProvider to do that on app\Providers\AppServiceProvider.php :

public function boot()
{
  $categories=Category::all();
  $view->with('categories', $categories);    
}

answered Jun 30 '20 at 09:27

STA

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 30 '20 at 09:27

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@bumperbox's solution is good!

An alternative is to add a view composer with the wildcard * in your AppServiceProvider.

View::composer(['*'], function ($view) {
    return $view->with([
        'categories' => Category::all(),
    ]);
    
});

answered Jun 30 '20 at 09:27

Kurt Friars

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How can i pass Category::all(); to every view

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