php - Laravel Auth and Session not working

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The following code prints "test: bar" but not "home: bar". This code works fine locally on my XAMPP server but doesn't work on my webhost server. At first I thought it was an issue with the PHP version, but I don't think it's that anymore. I'm thinking it has to be some setting I have to enable on the webhost? Does anyone know what may be causing this?

class HomeController extends BaseController {

    public function home()
    {
        echo "home: " . Session::get('foo');
    }

    public function test()
    {
        Session::put('foo','bar');
        echo "test: " . Session::get('foo');
        return Redirect::route('home');
    }

}

Actual Output:
test: bar
home:

Expected Output:
test: bar
home: bar

what settings do you have listed in your config for sessions? You are probably trying to use a session that does not exist on your webserver (i.e. memcache or something) — Laurence
– Laurence, Commented Mar 30, 2014 at 6:02
@TheShiftExchange: i left everything in config/sessions.php unchanged with the default settings. — carr0lls
– carr0lls, Commented Mar 30, 2014 at 6:56
You should be using return instead of echo, not sure if that'll solve the problem though. — Jason Lewis
– Jason Lewis, Commented Mar 30, 2014 at 8:11

Jason Lewis · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-30 13:58:13Z

1

Laravel expects a response to be returned from a route (and controllers). Because you're not returning the redirect the session is not persisted and the redirect probably isn't occurring. Simply update your methods to return the correct responses:

class HomeController extends BaseController {

    public function home()
    {
        return "home: " . Session::get('foo');
    }

    public function test()
    {
        Session::put('foo','bar');

        return Redirect::route('home');
    }

}

When you're returning a redirect there's no point in echoing as the response will not be seen anyway.

answered Mar 30, 2014 at 13:58

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carr0lls Over a year ago

again, apologies that's just a typo when typing it in here, i do have return in my code. it's functional. i've updated the code block above to show it now.

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