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Felix
Felix

Reputation: 2661

Laravel controller function applied globally

I have a controller for my website's inbox page, and in this controller there is a function that counts the number of unread messages the user has.

    public function updateUnreadCount() {
        if (Auth::check()) {
            $value = 0;
            $messages = Message::where(function($query) {
                return $query->where('recipient_id', Auth::user()->id)->where('reci_read', 0)
                ->orWhere('user_id', Auth::user()->id)->where('sender_read', 0);
            }); 

            foreach ($messages as &$value) {
                    ++$value;
            };

            Auth::user()->update([
                'unread_msg' => $value,
            ]);
        };  
    }

What I'd like to know is, how could I make this function trigger globally for all authenticated users, so that I could display the number of unread message on every page?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 68

Answers (2)

snehal
snehal

Reputation: 74

refer http://culttt.com/2014/02/10/using-view-composers-laravel-4/

A View Composer is essentially just a piece of code that is executed and bound to a View whenever that View is requested.

For multiple pages You can also make this data available on multiple pages by adding a comma separated listed of Views.

View::composer(array('profile','dashboard'), function($view)
{
  $view->with('count', Unread::updateUnreadCount());
});

Upvotes: 1

SteD
SteD

Reputation: 14027

Use View Composer

View composers are callbacks or class methods that are called when a view is rendered.

Say your unread inbox is located in navbar.blade.php. 

        // From the documentation, using Closure based composers...
        View::composer('navbar', function ($view) {
            if(Auth::user()) {
              //logic here
            }
        });

Upvotes: 1

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