Session not working in Laravel 4

Question

I have a problem with Session that won't persist.

In controller I have a function that loads a article for editing

public function getEdit($id)
{
    try {
        $news = News::findOrFail($id);
        View::share('title', Lang::get('admin.editNews').": ".$news->title);
        View::share('news', $news);
        $this->layout->content = View::make('news.editNews');
    } catch (Exception $e) {
        Session::flash('message', Lang::get('admin.noSuchNews'));
        Session::flash('notif', 'danger');
        return Redirect::to("news");
    }
}

And I have another function - index, that should display these flash messages.

public function getIndex()
{
    var_dump(Session::get('message'));
}

Session is just not persisting. Not working with Session::flash, not working with Session::put.

Session::get('message') is just always null.

I guess I should mention that I did application routing like this:

Route::controller('news', 'NewsController');

Yes. I know this because if `News::findOrFail($id)` doesn't fail it will load view, and if news is not found it should go to `catch`. This also works. Tried echoing `$e->getMessage()` — Vuk Stanković, Jul 23 '14 at 10:26
Have you tried `Redirect::to('news')->with('message', 'your_message');` ? — Needpoule, Jul 23 '14 at 10:31
I tried that first, because I was using that before, but it doesn't work. It doesn't even work when I do `Session::put('message', Lang::get('admin.noSuchNews'))`. And when I dump session with `Session::all()` I only get csrf token `_token` — Vuk Stanković, Jul 23 '14 at 10:34
Have you [configured your session](http://laravel.com/docs/session#configuration)? — Chibueze Opata, Jul 23 '14 at 11:01

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 11 '15 at 17:03

Check your the return state of the function setting the Session in your controller. Make sure that it returns something even if it's a simple null.

I've just had the same issue and this solved it. I was able to use the following just fine:

Route::get('session', function (){
    Session::put('current_user', 'Lionel Morrison');
    Session::put('user_id', '12345');

    var_dump(Session::all());
});

Route::get('get', function () {
    var_dump(Session::all());
});

but when I used it in a controller like so it didn't work until I returned a null;

public function setsession() {
    Session::put('cat', 'Tom');
    Session::put('mouse', 'Jerry');

    return null;
}

public function getsession() {
    dd(Session::all());
}

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 23 '14 at 11:15

4

Ok, I have fixed this.

Thing is, that I have put into session.php file this

'domain' => '.mydomain.com',

But since app is still in localhost, everything with session was failing even though I wasn't using cookie as my Session driver.

When I changed this to

'domain' => '',

Everything started working

answered Jul 23 '14 at 11:15

Vuk Stanković

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I have followed your solution. But not working for me. – 2plus Aug 06 '14 at 06:18

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 18 '14 at 10:53

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If you find that your Session isn't saving correctly, try calling Session::save() explicitly to force it to save.

answered Nov 18 '14 at 10:53

philipbrown

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 23 '14 at 11:03

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You may want to check the Session settings described at http://laravel.com/docs/session#session-drivers.

The easiest way is to use cookies for sessions (and make sure cookies are enabled in your browser).

If you are using file for storing sessions, make sure the storage path defined in app/config/session.php is writable.

answered Jul 23 '14 at 11:03

lowerends

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I'm using database driver and every request creates a new row there. Some requests even create two rows in session table – Vuk Stanković Jul 23 '14 at 11:09

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 01 '15 at 07:12

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If you are tried to login using "Auth::loginUsingId()" api instead of "Auth::attempt()" api, it will destroy the session for another request. So I recommend you, use "cookie" driver instead of "file" of session.php (config\session.php\driver)

answered Sep 01 '15 at 07:12

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 25 '16 at 19:05

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for laravel 4.2

goto app/config dir

edit app.php

'url' => 'localhost',

edit session.php

'driver' => 'file',
'cookie' => 'sitename_session',
'domain' => null,
'secure' => false,

answered Jun 25 '16 at 19:05

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Session not working in Laravel 4

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