Hi,

In my Laravel app users can send private messages to each other and I want to be able to pass a message instance to my layout so that users can see when they get new messages.

I already passing an instance of the authed user to my layout/views in App::before():

App::before(function($request)
{
    App::singleton('shared', function(){
        $app = new stdClass;
        if (Auth::check()) {
            $app->user = Auth::User();
            $app->isLogedin = TRUE;
        }
        else
        {
            $app->isLogedin = FALSE;
            $app->user = FALSE;
        }

        return $app;
    });

    $app = App::make('shared');
    View::share('shared', $app);
});

and I have tried to add stuff to 'shared' but it doesn't work. I have also tried to pass variables to my layout from the BaseController constructor.

How can I return a database result from a model to my layout every page view?