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');

Answer 1

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());
}

Answer 2

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