Set Global Variable accessible in all controller methods Laravel 5.3 - php

Question

I have this route
Route::group(['middleware' => 'returnphase'], function () {
Route::get('/', 'FrontendController#home')->name('homepage');
});
My middleware check in what Phase (logic is non important now) is my application, i need that the controller setting up a global variable that i can use in all methods inside FrontendController because i need to read from database some data that depend from that check:
Middleware code, i need to set a phase_id varibale that i can use in may frontend controller.
namespace Cbcc\Http\Middleware;
use Closure;
class ReturnPhaseMiddleware
{
/**
* Handle an incoming request.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #param \Closure $next
* #return mixed
*/
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
/**
* TODO: Phase id check logic
*/
// SETTING GLOBAL PHASE ID VARIABLE (EXAMPLE PHASE_ID = 1)
return $next($request);
}
}
My frontend controller
//FrontEndController
namespace Cbcc\Http\Controllers;
use Cbcc\Page;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class FrontendController extends Controller
{
public function home()
{
$page = Page::where([
['phase_id',/**** I NEED GLOBAL PHASE ID HERE SETTING BY MIDDLEWARE***/],
['type','home']
])->get()[0];
return view('frontend.index',compact('page'));
}
}
Any ideas to do that?

Answer 1

You might want to user Session variables. What about using flash session variables since it seems you only use this variable once :
Middleware
class ReturnPhaseMiddleware
{
/**
* Handle an incoming request.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #param \Closure $next
* #return mixed
*/
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
/**
* TODO: Phase id check logic
*/
$request->session()->flash('PHASE_ID', '1');
return $next($request);
}
}
Front-end controller
class FrontendController extends Controller
{
public function home(Request $request)
{
$page = Page::where([
['phase_id', $request->session()->get('PHASE_Id')],
['type','home']
])->get()[0];
return view('frontend.index',compact('page'));
}
}
The special property of flash session variables is that they get destroyed at the next request.
Reference : https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/session#flash-data

Answer 2

Good strategy, and without using session?
What do you think about my solution?
// Frontend Controlller
namespace Cbcc\Http\Controllers;
use Cbcc\Lib\CheckPhaseInterface;
use Cbcc\Page;
class FrontendController extends Controller
{
protected
$phase_id;
public function __construct()
{
$this->middleware(function ($request, $next) {
// this 2 lines return phase id logic, for example $check->run() return 1 (int)
$check = resolve(CheckPhaseInterface::class);
$this->phase_id = $check->run();
return $next($request);
});
}
public function home()
{
$page = $this->getPageContent();
return view('frontend.index',compact('page'));
}
protected function getPageContent()
{
return Page::where([
['phase_id',$this->phase_id],
['type','home']
])->get()[0];
}
}