php - Elegant way to get count of elements in each model in laravel 5.1 -

in each menu item need display number of items contained inside. example:

users (22) posts (57) categories (14) cities (92) 

tried this:

app/view/composers/addcountofmodels.php:

namespace app\view\composers;  use illuminate\view\view; use app\user; use app\post; use app\category; use app\city;  class addcountofmodels {   public function compose(view $view)   {     $view->with('count_of', [       'users' => user::count(),       'posts' => post::count(),       'categories' => category::count(),       'cities' => city::count(),     ]);   } } 

app/providers/appserviceprovider.php:

namespace app\providers;  use app\view\composers; use illuminate\support\serviceprovider;  class appserviceprovider extends serviceprovider {   public function boot()   {     $this->app['view']->composer('_layouts.backend', composers\addcountofmodels::class);   } } ... 

menu.blade.php:

@extends('_layouts.backend')  @section('menu') <ul class="sidebar-menu">   <li class="header">menu</li>   <li class="menu-item">users ({{ $count_of['users'] }})</li>   <li class="menu-item">posts ({{ $count_of['posts'] }})</li>   <li class="menu-item">categories ({{ $count_of['categories'] }})</li>   <li class="menu-item">cities ({{ $count_of['cities'] }})</li> </ul> @endsection 

but looks clumsy because models can more.
please find more beautiful solution.

i'm not sure understand you, i'll give go

// in controller // change models location $model_files = \file::allfiles('../app/models');   foreach($model_files $model_file) {     $pos = strrpos($model_file->getrelativepathname(), ".");     // add path     $models[] = 'app\models\\'.substr($model_file->getrelativepathname(), 0, $pos); }     return view('layouts.app')->with(compact('models'));  // in view       <ul class="sidebar-menu">     <li class="header">menu</li>     @foreach($models $model)         <li class="menu-item">{{ $model }} ({{ $model::count() }})</li>     @endforeach </ul>