Laravel: Calling method of a controller class from blade template - php

Question

How can I call a method of a controller from blade template and receive the data is returned by the method. For Example:
MeetingRoomController
class MeetingRoomController extends \BaseController
{
public function index()
{
//get all the meeting room
$meetingRoomCountry = MeetingRoom::select('country')->distinct()->orderBy('country')->get();
return View::make('index')->with('meetingroom', $meetingRoomCountry);
}
public function findLocationForNavBar( $country )
{
$meetingRoomLocation = MeetingRoom::select('location')
->distinct()
->where('country', '$country')
->orderBy('country')
->get();
return View::make('index')- >with('meetingroomLocation', $meetingRoomLocation);
}
}
View - index.blade.php
<div id="dropdown-lvl1" class="panel-collapse collapse">
<div class="panel-body">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
#foreach($meetingroom as $key => $value)
<li class="panel panel-default" id="dropdown">
<a data-toggle="collapse" href="#dropdown-lvl2">
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-off"></span> {{$country = $value->country}} <span class="caret"></span>
</a>
<div id="dropdown-lvl2" class="panel-collapse collapse">
<div class="panel-body">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li>Location</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</li>
#endforeach
</ul>
</div>
</div>
I want to collect the location based on corresponding country. According to my logic, First of all I collected the distinct country then searched the location by findLocationForNavBar method in MeetingRoomController.

Answer 1

If you're using Laravel 5.1, you could try a Service Injection from your blade template.
http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/blade#service-injection
Example from the docs:
#inject('metrics', 'App\Services\MetricsService')
<div>
Monthly Revenue: {{ $metrics->monthlyRevenue() }}.
</div>

Answer 2

You can do all this stuff in the index() method and send location and country to view.