Laravel 5.1+
This has been deprecated in favour of Middleware.
Laravel 4
You could set the beforeFilter
like this:
class ContentController extends BaseController {
function __construct() {
// this function will run before every action in the controller
$this->beforeFilter(function()
{
// this will make the variable $myvar available in your view
$this->layout->with('myvar', 'some-data');
});
}
}