Trigger function after session timeout or expire in laravel

Question

Hello i'm kinda new to laravel and i have a question concerning authentication. I have the following function in my authentication controller:

public function signout()
    { 
        // set logged in status to zero in database
        $l = Login::where('user_id', Session::get('user')->user_id)
                ->where('logged_in', 1)->first(); 
        $l->logged_in = 0;
        if ($l->save())
        {
            // log user out
            Auth::logout();
            // Forget user session data
            Session::forget('user');
            // redirect user to login page
            return Redirect::to('/account/signin');
        }
    }

Now in my session config, i have set sessions to expire after 60mins after which the user will obviously be logged out of the system. However that will occur without my other functions executing like setting user logged in status to zero in database or forgetting the user session array. Is there a way i can trigger those functions to execute after login session expire? Thank you in advance.

Update: I've been looking around again ever since i got a down vote for my question to see if there was already a solution to this, from reading the docs i got excited when i came to the "Events" section because i thought i had found a solution however i found out later on that there was no such thing as a "Session::expire" event in laravel, neither is there a function to check whether another user is logged in or not.

Answer 1

Your whole premise is wrong: sessions should have an expiry timestamp that's set when user logs in, and updated on every request if you want to have something like "session times out after 1h of inactivity".

Then you can basically:

1. Check if session is still valid when user performs a request, by checking the timestamp
2. Delete expired sessions using a scheduled task, so you keep things clean and tidy in the background

Anyway, if for some reason you end up needing to trigger some actions to happen when a user signs out Laravel actually has an Event that's triggered on user logout: 'auth.logout'