@include a view with controller functionality - Laravel 5.4

Asked by: Anna Jeanine

I am working on a profile page for my web application. Within this view profile.blade.php I would like to include the view progress/index.blade.php. I have the following structure:

profile.blade.php

<div class="panel panel-default">
        <div class="panel-heading clearfix">
            <h1 class="panel-title pull-left">{{ $user->name }} Progress</h1>
        </div>
        <div class="panel-body">
            @include('client.progress.index')
        </div>
</div>

web.php

Route::group(['middleware' => ['auth', 'client'], 'prefix' => 'client', 'as' => 'client.'], function () {
    Route::get('home', 'Client\HomeController@index')->name('home');
    Route::get('profile', 'Client\UserController@profile')->name('profile');
    Route::get('progress', 'Client\UserController@progress')->name('progress.index');
});

UserController@progress

public function progress(){

        $auth = Auth::user();
        $progressPictures = Picture::select('*')
            ->where('user_id', $auth->id)
            ->get();

        return view('client.progress.index', ['progressPictures' => $progressPictures]);
    }

client.progress.index

<p>Progress pictures</p>

@foreach($progressPictures as $progressPicture)
    <img src="/storage/uploads/progress/{{ $progressPicture }}" style="width:150px; height:150px; float:left; border-radius:50%; margin-right:25px;">
@endforeach

When I remove the php part from the index.blade.php, the site works. but when i add the foreach loop, $progressPictures is undefined. I am not calling the UserController@progress in some way. Could some one help me with this?

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