Sharing session between Laravel and PHP App

Question

I have two app in one server, the first is Laravel based and the second is a pure PHP app.

Now I want to save some variables in the session in laravel and use it in my pure PHP app.

I tried various ways to store session variables but any of them won't worked.

Session::put('key', 'value');

$request->session()->put('key', 'value');

$_SESSION['key'] = 'value';

None of the above storing method allowed me to fetch the session in my pure PHP app.
I print_r($_SESSION) this in pure PHP app and return null.

It's not a good idea to use the same session for two apps. Use shared DB or Redis or API to share the data between apps. — Alexey Mezenin
– Alexey Mezenin, Commented Jan 24, 2018 at 14:05
@shukshin.ivan because its an old app and I want to add new features in laravel — Masoud Tavakkoli
– Masoud Tavakkoli, Commented Jan 24, 2018 at 14:24

Anderson Andrade · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-24 14:08:23Z

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Laravel does not use the Session to save its sessions, it uses, file, cookie, redis or other drives, which is why you can not access directly in $ _SESSION.

https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/session#configuration

answered Jan 24, 2018 at 14:08

Anderson Andrade

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Masoud Tavakkoli Over a year ago

so how can I use $_SESSION in laravel?

Anderson Andrade Over a year ago

You must to use global helper to work with sessions: // Saving value. session()->put('key', 'value'); // Gettinng value. session('key');

Anderson Andrade Over a year ago

If you are writing an external session to Laravel and want to use it inside Laravel, then you need to use the $ _SESSION itself. If you are using the Laravel helpers, this data can only be accessed within it.

Masoud Tavakkoli Over a year ago

You don't know any way to use this data in other app?

Anderson Andrade Over a year ago

You can use other drives such as Redis or database to share session data.

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Tai Le · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-24 14:29:33Z

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I think you forgot using session_start() before use $_SESSION. Please try it.

answered Jan 24, 2018 at 14:29

Tai Le

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Masoud Tavakkoli Over a year ago

No, I didn't forget. I placed session_start() in first line of code

Tai Le Over a year ago

I think you need to define your key with $_SESSION variable.

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