Laravel 5 session not persisting after user is logged in

Question

I'm having an interesting issue with Laravel 5.

After logging in a user, the logged in status is not persisted across pages. Clearly it has something to do with Session::.

The way I'm logging in a user is pretty straight-forward:

if (Auth::attempt(['email' => $data['email'], 'password' => $data['password']],     isset($data['remember_me']) ? TRUE : FALSE)) {     return redirect()->intended('/'); } 

A simple print_r(Session::all()); gives me the following if the user is NOT logged in:

Array (     [_token] => wV8o75lZnCZ0f6CMMQgdBBM2AxSYjtWisAXx6TgZ     [flash] => Array         (             [old] => Array                 (                 )              [new] => Array                 (                 )          )      [_previous] => Array         (             [url] => http://localhost/public         )  ) 

After the user is logged in an redirected to / the array looks like this:

Array (     [_token] => wV8o75lZnCZ0f6CMMQgdBBM2AxSYjtWisAXx6TgZ     [flash] => Array         (             [old] => Array                 (                 )              [new] => Array                 (                 )          )      [_previous] => Array         (             [url] => http://localhost/public/         )      [login_82e5d2c56bdd0811318f0cf078b78bfc] => 2 ) 

However, after any action that will lead to a page refresh or a redirect, the session status is lost.

My config/session.php file looks like so:

<?php  return [     'driver' => env('SESSION_DRIVER', 'file'),     'lifetime' => 120,     'expire_on_close' => false,     'encrypt' => false,     'files' => storage_path('framework/sessions'),     'connection' => null,     'table' => 'sessions',     'lottery' => [2, 100],     'cookie' => 'laravel_session',     'path' => '/',     'domain' => null,     'secure' => false,  ]; 

The locally stored file for the session can be written and read.

I've tried using database drive instead of file. Same thing happens the [login_xx] => 2 key/value is lost and I'm logged out.

Since the Session:: is not completely reset I'm suspecting that I'm not logging in the user properly or simply doing something that I shouldn't be doing somewhere.

Answer 1

I faced similar issue, I simply called:

Session::save(); 

after any add/update/delete to Session storage. So it looked like:

$id = Input::get('id'); Session::forget('cart.' .$id); Session::save(); 

Answer 2

I had the same issue. Once I removed the various combinations of dd() and print_r() I was using to dump responses for testing purposes and allowed the method to complete and fully render the view, the issue went away and sessions persisted.