Laravel How to store extra data/value in session Laravel - laravel

Question

I'm using default auth() in laravel login (email & password)
Now i try to take input from the user in text field like (Age or City)
Now i want to store (Age/City) in my session.
Help me

Answer 1

You can use session() helper:
session('age', 18); // saves age into session
$age = session('age')`; // gets age from session
Update
If you want to save Age and City after user registration, you should store this data in a DB, not in a session. You can add some fileds in create method of app\Http\Controllers\Auth\AuthController.php

Answer 2

You can use
Session::put('key', 'value');
To get key from Session use
Session::get('key');
You can use the session() helper function as #Alexey Mezenin answer.
Laravel Session Documentation

Answer 3

Ok let me enlighten you. if you want to store it in session do it this way.
session('country', $user->country); // save
$country = session('country')`; // retrieve
But that is not the way we do in Laravel like frameworks, it uses models
once the user is authenticated each time when we refresh the page, application looks for the database users table whether the user exists in the table. the authenticated user model is a user model too. so through it we can extract any column. first thing is add extra fields to the User class(Model) $fillable array.
so it would look something like this.
User.php
protected $fillable = ['username', 'password', 'remember_token', 'country'];
so after simply logging in with user name and password in anywhere just use Request class or Auth facade. Facades are not too recommended so here for your good as a new one i would just say how to use Request. Suppose you want to retrieve your Authenticated user country inside TestController.php here is how it could be used in the methods.
TestController.php
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
public function testMethod(Request $request)
{
$someCountry = $request->user()->country; //gets the logged in user country
dd($someCountry); //dd is die and dump, could be used for debugging purposes like var_dump() method
}

Answer 4

Using Request
public function ControllerName (Request $request){
$request->session()->put('session_age', $age);
}
Get session_age
$get_session_age = $request->session()->get('session_age');
Using Session
public function ControllerName (){
Session::put('age',$age);
}
Get the session
$session_age = Session::get('age');
Don't forget to define Session or Request in your controller!!!
use App\Http\Requests;
use Session;

Answer 5

To work with session in your controller you need to include session first in your controller
use Session;
After that for store data in session. There is several ways to do it. I prefer this one (in controller)
session()->put('key',$value);
To display session data in your View you can do it like this
#if(Session::has('key'))
I'v got session data
#else
I don't have session data
#endif
To get session data in your Controller you can do it like this
session()->get('key')
//or
session()->get('key','defaul_value_if_session_dont_exist')
When you are done with your data in session you can delete it like this (in controller)
session()->forget('key');
All this basic usage of session is well documented in official Laravel documentation here.
Hope it helps you