Laravel private variable shared between two methods in Controller

You're talking about one single controller, right? So I'll assume that this what you mean:

class ControllerController extends Controller {    private $variable;    public function __construct($whatever)    {        $this->variable = $whatever;    }    public function method1($newValue)    {        $this->variable = $newValue;    }    public function method2()    {        return $this->variable;    }}

If you are doing thing in the same request, you can

$this->method1('newvalue');echo $this->method2();

And it will print newvalue.

If you are doing it between requests, you need to remember that your application ends after a request a restart in a new one, so you'll need to store it somewhere, like in a Session variable:

Session::put('variable', $newvalue);

and then

Session::get('variable');

Or you can redirect with the value you need to get back in your method:

Redirect::to('posts')->with('variable','this is a new value');

And in the second

Session::get('variable');

You can also use Setting approach outlined here

laravel share variable across all methods in a controller

and

Laravel: Passing default variables to view

and you can download Setting here, https://github.com/Phil-F/Setting