Strange issue with Laravel's flash session

Question

I'm encountering a very strange issue and couldn't find anything about it. I'm trying a very simple thing, using a flash message in Laravel to display a message to the user if a condition didn't met.

Basically this is the controller code i'm using:

        Session::flash('error', 'error message');
        return redirect()->back();

//      this didn't work either
//      return redirect()->action('Controller@method', $var)->with('error', ['error message']);

The thing is, it IS working when I var_dump the session in the view, but not without it. This is the view:

{{ Session::get('error') }} // does not work
{{ dd(Session::get('error')) }} // works!

It is a very simple thing, but I don't know why it goes wrong.

Any helpers around? :) Thanks!

Answer 1

You shall debug in this way

Clear all the files in your sessions folder

In your controller you can create flash message using any of the given two ways

 Session::flash('error', 'error message');
 return redirect()->back();

or

  return redirect()->action('Controller@method', $var)->with('error', ['error message']);

Then in your blade

@if (Session::has('error')) 
<div class="alert alert-info">
    {{ Session::get('error') }}
</div> 
@endif