How to set a Cookie with Laravel 5?

So what part isn't working? Is it not saving test value in test cookie?

What does not work? Maybe you could try the Cookie::make() method instead?

This doesn't set a cookie

return view('welcome')->withCookie(cookie('test', 'test', 45000));

This does

$response = new \Illuminate\Http\Response('Test');
$response->withCookie(cookie('test', 'test', 45000));
return $response;

If you read the cookie in docs, that's how you do it: http://laravel.com/docs/master/requests#cookies

I ended up doing this

 use Illuminate\Cookie\CookieJar;

 public function index(CookieJar $cookieJar, Request $request)
 {
     if($request->referrer){
        $cookieJar->queue(cookie('referrer', $request->referrer, 45000));
     }

     return view('welcome');
 }

This also worked

$response = new \Illuminate\Http\Response(view('welcome'));
$response->withCookie(cookie('referrer', $request->referrer, 45000));
return $response;

But the other solution looks cleaner. Thanks for your help :-)

I believe you can just queue it.

Cookie::queue(Cookie::make('name', 'value', 'minutes'));

And on the next response the cookie will be added automagically.

@scalerboy's answer is completely correct as stated in the document: https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/responses#attaching-cookies-to-responses

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Cookie;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;

class DashboardController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Show the application dashboard.
     *
     * @return Response
     */
    public function index()
    {
        Cookie::queue('saw_dashboard', true, 15);

        return view('dashboard');
    }
}

use this code

public function index(CookieJar $cookieJar, Request $request) { if($request->referrer){ $cookieJar->queue(cookie('referrer', $request->referrer, 45000)); }

 return view('welcome');

}

namespace

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Input;

use Illuminate\Http\Request; 

and function

public function regionCookie(Request $request)
{
        $region = Input::get('region');
        return redirect()->back()->withCookie(cookie('region', $region,10));;
}

@TROELSJOHNSEN - I loved your solution and used it as a foundation for an single page form where I wanted to upload CVs before the user was already registered. Using a cookie seemed the way to go and your queuing put me on the right track. Nice one!

It is also possible to use the response helper method:

public function index()
{
    return response()->view('welcome')
                     ->withCookie(cookie('referrer', request()->referrer, 45000));
}