Making a value from db accessible system wide in Laravel

Question

I would like to know the best way to go about displaying a value from the database system wide in Laravel 5?

Basically, all authenticated users should have it set and I want to use it in a couple of places.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Without knowing too much about your setup/needs, I'd say you should create your own helpers file and put a simple function in there:

function special_value()
{
    static $value;

    if (is_null($value)) {
        $value = DB::table('the_table')->value('the_column');
    }

    return $value;
}

Then, wherever you need the value, just call special_value() to get it.