Laravel share Auth::User() info

Question

I made a BaseController to share user information but that doesn't work. Auth::user()->id and Auth::user()->email are empty.

How can I archive this? Whats the best approach?

class BaseAdminController extends Controller{
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->initMenu();
    }

    private function initMenu()
    {
       View::share('userinfo', (object) ['id' => Auth::User()->id, 'email' => Auth::User()->email]);
    }
}

Answer 1

You can do it via middleware because you can't access the session or authenticated user in the controller's constructor, since the middlware isn't runnig yet:

class BaseAdminController extends Controller{
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->middleware(function ($request, $next) {

            $this->initMenu();

            return $next($request);
        });
    }

    private function initMenu()
    {
       View::share('userinfo', (object) ['id' => Auth::User()->id, 'email' => Auth::User()->email]);
    }
}

Answer 2

You can use the view helper function to share stuff easily. Maybe this will help you:

view()->share('userinfo', [...data to pass in an array...]);

or

view()->share('user', Auth::user());

This is an example! Only pas the info you want to the view, like you did in your example. But just pass the array, not casting it to object, etc....