I'm having the same issue. Did you figure something out?

Same issue. Did any of you solve this?

i use view composer but i use it in a different way at the basecontoller.php i have public function __construct() { if(Auth::check()}{ $name = Auth::user()->fname.' '.lname; } }

This works for me. I can access $name in Master layout as well as child layouts.

Also, the mentioned post http://forumsarchive.laravel.io/viewtopic.php?pid=60680 would not work because the variable is available to Layout.master not any other layouts.

Try this and see if it works

class HomeController extends BaseController {

	public $restful = true;
	public $layout = 'templates.example';

public function showWelcome() {
  $view = View::make('home.view');

  //set variable available in view
  $view->var_available_in_view = 'hello view';

  //set variable available in  template
  $this->layout->var_available_in_template = 'Hello template';

}

}

joy014 said:

i use view composer but i use it in a different way at the basecontoller.php i have public function __construct() { if(Auth::check()}{ $name = Auth::user()->fname.' '.lname; } }

This works for me. I can access $name in Master layout as well as child layouts.

I am not sure that I understand this approach, how does the $name variable get passed to the view?

I found that it is possible to use wildcards when registering view composers. This is still a suboptimal solution as it requires you to structure your views folder in a certain way.

Say your views folder is structured like this:

• views
  • public
    • home.blade.php
    • blog.blade.php
  • admin
    • posts.blade.php
    • users.blade.php

It is then possible to register a view composer on all views in a folder like this:

View::composer('admin.*', function($view) {
    $view->with('user', Auth::user());
});

Like I said, suboptimal, but this does it for me at the moment.

You can also use View::share