How can I pass username in controller? - laravel

Question

Username is store in my session. I am working on leave management module.
My Leave module's table has these fields
User Name, Leave Type, Duration, Status, & Action.
Apart from username all details I can insert and list in list view.
But my user name is store in session.
How can i get it from session and store in database In Username field??
Code in my view file
#if(Session::has('key'))
<?php $username = Session::get('key')['username']; ?>
#endif
<input type="hidden" name="username" value="<?php echo $username ?>">
Code In My controller file
public function leaveApplication(Request $request)
{
$leave = new LeaveManagement();
$leave->username = $request->get('username');
$leave->leaveType = $request->get('leaveType');
$leave->startDate = $request->get('startDate');
$leave->endDate = $request->get('endDate');
$leave->fromLeave = $request->get('fromLeave');
$leave->fromHalfDayLeaveType = $request->get('fromHalfDayLeaveType');
$leave->toLeave = $request->get('toLeave');
$leave->toHalfDayLeaveType = $request->get('toHalfDayLeaveType');
$leave->fullDayLeave = $request->get('fullDayLeave');
$leave->typeOfLeave = $request->get('typeOfLeave');
$leave->reasonForLeave =$request->get('reasonForLeave');
$leave->status = 'Pending';
$leave->save();
return redirect('leave');
}

Answer 1

You can use Laravel global session helper: session(keyName).
To get username from session and store it in database:
$username = session('username');
$leave = new Leave();
$leave->username = $username;
$leave->save();
For more information on Laravel session see Laravel Session

Answer 2

you can get object from your session and access to its attributes.some thing like:
$user = session()->get('user')
$username = $user->username
or after logging you can access your user's username with:
auth()->user()->username

Answer 3

After login, Auth maintains user table fields in it. You can access it like that -
echo Auth::user()->name or echo Auth::user()->email
It will return the expected values as : "usersname" and "useremail#domain.com".
If you are not using Auth, then you can get username from your session and save it in DB like that -
$user = session()->get('user')
$username = $user->username;
$leave = new LeaveManagement();
$leave->username = $username;
$leave->save();
Hope this will help you.