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cmill02s
cmill02s

Reputation: 81

PHP Global Variable or Best Practice

I am in the infant stages of my web development career and have a quick question.

I have a variable I am using in a lot of my controller's functions.

$today = new DateTime('today');

I have read that declaring global variables is a big no no and I would like to get away from having to declare it in each function.

What would be the best way to declare this variable and use it across all of my controllers functions?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 478

Answers (2)

Antonio Carlos Ribeiro
Antonio Carlos Ribeiro

Reputation: 87719

If this is something you are using on your controllers only, you can just create it in a base controller:

<?php

BaseController extends Controller {

    protected $today;

    public function __construct()
    {
        $today = new DateTime('now');
    }

}

MyController extends BaseController {

    public function whatever()
    {
        echo "today: $this->today";
    }

}

If this is something you need in your views, you can use:

View::share('today', new DateTime('now'));

And it will be available to all your views:

Today: {{ $today }}

This doesn't make much sense to me, but if you want to keep this variable between requests, you can use the laravel Session Facade:

Session::put('today', now DateTime('now'));

echo Session::get('today');

Don't use $_SESSION unless you really need to take control over session handling.

Upvotes: 3

Aman Mathur
Aman Mathur

Reputation: 719

You can use $_SESSION variables to store data and still have global usage.

session_start(); 
$_SESSION['today'] = new DateTime('today');

Upvotes: 0

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