As we’re building our app, we’re trying to make it international. We are storing the user’s language preference in the Session, but we need to have it as a variable in the views. I stumbled upon this SO post with an easy solution.

class BaseController extends Controller
{
  public function __construct()
  {
    $lang = Session::get('lang');
    View::share('lang', $lang);
  }
}

This makes the variable $lang available in our views. Nice and easy. Just remember to add “use View;” and, in our case, “use Session;” to the controller as well.