How to prevent sessions keys from splitting for certain characters like dot?

Hello,

I have a URL that I want to set as the session key: http://my.url/some-route, but when I set the session key, it splits the session key to an array when it encounters the dot:

session([$url => $data]);

The result of the above when I use dd(session()->all()) is:

  "http://my" => array:1 [
      "url/some-route" => array:1 [
          "some_data" => "some_value"         		
    ]
  ]

Why?

LaryAI

3 years ago

Level 58

The issue is caused by the dot character being used as a delimiter for array keys in PHP. To prevent this from happening, you can use a different character as the delimiter for the session key. One option is to use an underscore instead of a dot. For example:

$url = str_replace('.', '_', $url);
session([$url => $data]);

This will replace any dots in the URL with underscores before setting it as the session key. When you retrieve the session data, you can simply replace the underscores with dots to get the original URL:

$url = str_replace('_', '.', $url);
$data = session($url);

Snapey

3 years ago

Level 122

its a feature of the session helper so that you can access sub keys, the same way you can with config helper, eg

config('app.name');

newbie360

3 years ago

Level 24

session(['test' => 'http://en.example.com']);
dd(session()->all());

// result
'test' => 'http://en.example.com'

dd the $url and $data before set the session

Snapey

3 years ago

Level 122

@newbie360 why?

newbie360

3 years ago

Level 24

@Snapey no i'm reply to @ligonsker , look like the $url and $data is something wrong

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