How to get computed variable from any model and controller in laravel? - php

Question

I have 2 models: User and Account.
Account is an company account, it has a slug field. Slug is needed to determine which company the user is accessing. In example, route /account/*company_slug*/deals means that user trying to get an array of deals of company_slug company.
Each entity associated with a company has a field account_id. That's why I need to get an of the current account. Where should I do this and how?
In example, I get the middleware CheckIfAccountAcceptedForUser with the following code:
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
$account = Account::find($request->route()->parameter('account'));
abort_if(empty($account), 404) ;
abort_if(DB::table('account_user')
->where(function (Builder $query) use ($account) {
$query->where('account_slug', '=', $account->slug);
$query->where('user_id', '=', Auth::id());
})
->get()
->isEmpty(), 403);
return $next($request);
}
How to set the account_id globally for my application, if route is like /account/*account*/...?

Answer 1

Maybe this is not what you are looking for.
When you check account in middleware you make a query, after that you should make a new query in controller to take account data. In your situation you make 3 queries instead of 1.
You can check it in your account controller by one query.
Route:
Route::get('/account/{slug}/deals', 'AccountsController#deals');
Accounts controller:
public function deals($slug){
$account = Account::where('id', Auth::user()->account_id)
->where('slug', $slug)
->firstOrFail();
$deals = Deal::where('account_id', $account->id)->get();
return view('account.deals', compact('account', 'deals'));
}
It will always response 404 error if account with current slug doesn't exist or user can't access this account. Do you really need 403 response?

Answer 2

public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
$account = Account::find($request->route()->parameter('account'));
abort_if(empty($account), 404) ;
abort_if(DB::table('account_user')
->where(function (Builder $query) use ($account) {
$query->where('account_slug', '=', $account->slug);
$query->where('user_id', '=', Auth::id());
})
->get()
->isEmpty(), 403);
//For global use in your all view file
View::share ( 'account_id', $account->id);
// to access account_id in controller
$request->request->add(['account_id' => $account->id]);
return $next($request);
}
In Controller
$account_id = request('account_id');