Laravel 5.2 session cookie driver - laravel-5

Question

I have a problem with the cookie session driver. I need to create an app that works with only cookies. With my configuration, the session is not persisting in Laravel 5.2 with the cookie driver. If I use the file session driver, it works.
.env file:
SESSION_DRIVER=cookie
I also created a middleware that checks if a custom session value exists (only handle() function):
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
//dd(session('auth')) // null
if (!session('auth')) {
if ($request->ajax() || $request->wantsJson()) {
return response('Unauthorized.', 401);
} else {
return redirect('/');
}
}
return $next($request);
}
I added the middleware to the $routeMiddleware array in app/Http/Kernel.php:
'cookies' => \App\Http\Middleware\CheckCookies::class,
My routes are:
Route::group(['middleware' => ['web']], function () {
Route::get('/', 'LoginController#index');
Route::post('login', 'LoginController#login');
Route::group(['middleware' => 'cookies'], function () {
Route::get('home','HomeController#index');
Route::get('logout','HomeController#logout');
});
});
Here's my LoginController#login method:
public function login()
{
session([
'auth' => ['name' => 'John Doe']
]);
return redirect('/home');
}
How can I fix this?

Answer 1

Just use Cookie Facades in laravel.
Cookie::queue('key', 'value', $minutes);
To make cookie forever
Cookie::forever('key', 'value');
Modify your code and try this.
LoginController#login
public function login(){
$cookieValue=json_encode(array('name'=>'John Dow'));
Cookie::queue('auth', $cookieValue, 60);
return redirect('/home');
}
CheckCookies Middleware
public function handle($request, Closure $next){
if (!Cookie::get('auth'))
if ($request->ajax() || $request->wantsJson()) {
return response('Unauthorized.', 401);
} else {
return redirect('/');
}
return $next($request);
}
}