Laravel 5 session data is not accessible in the app boot process

The provider boot method is fired after all providers register so session should work.

The provider boot method is fired after all providers register so session should work.

@bestmomo

it seems there is a new StartSession Middleware that runs after all of the service providers have been booted.

I've checked it, you're right. You could add a middleware.

What about App::booted()?

I have submitted a proposal here https://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/7906

For now my workaround was to create a new StartSession middleware in app.

    protected function startSession(Request $request)
    {
        $session = parent::startSession($request);

        \Event::fire('session.started');

        return $session;
    }

Then in Kernel.php

    protected $middleware =  [
        // Replace
        'Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession',
        // With
        'App\Http\Middleware\StartSession',
    ]

Then put this in the service providers boot method

    $this->app['events']->listen('session.started', function() {
          dd($this->app['session']->all());
    });

Hope that helps someone else out, it was a very frustrating issue for me.

Edit: just seen your comment franzliedke, the booted method doesn't work either from what I can remember.

It looks like you also need to include

    $this->app->singleton('App\Http\Middleware\StartSession');

In the app service provider. I don't understand why though. Can anyone explain that?

Lets keep this issue going. I believe this is a true bug that should be resolved.

PR created https://github.com/laravel/framework/pull/7933

it seem lavarel 5.x not working fine with persistent session http://prntscr.com/7lyars i tried and got NULL

Hi guys,

I know it was too late to respond but I face the session issue in AppServiceProvider Class in (Laravel 5.1) and fixed with below code. use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Session;

and then in boot function add this line of code your session will be set through the app.

Session::put('someKey', 'someValue');

Thanks

We can get session value or data of a loginned user at AppServiceProvider. The following we will show how to get, share values of session and loginned user to all views.

Code:

namespace App\Yourapp\Younamespace;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Session;

use Illuminate\Support\View;

use App;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider{

      public function boot() {

           $auth = $this->app['auth']; // get Laravel's Auth facades

 

           view()->composer('*', function($view) use (&$auth) {   // this function coding style is php callback and you can pass variables at boot() to this callback function.

           

 

                 $user = $auth->user(); // get the loginned user

 

                 if ( empty(Session::get('sessionDataWithAssignedKeyYouWant', '')) {

                       Session::put('sessionKeyYouWant', 'sessionDataYouWant'); // set session data

                 }

                 $mySessionDataWithAssignedKey = Session::get('sessionKeyYouWant', 'sessionDataYouWant'); // get session data

 

 

                 $view->with(['user'=> $user, 'myVariable' => $mySessionDataWithAssignedKey]); // share these values to all views.

           });

      }

 

      public function register() {

      }

}

You can change the first parameter at view()->composer() from star sign to what you want. For example, user.* means all views under user directory or this way *.checkout means all view directories has named checkout view. But when you change from star sign to what you want view, you should rather to get and set session data in middleware instead of do them in AppServiceProvider.

Enjoy it.

Inpired by these links:

1. https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/laravel-5-session-data-is-not-accessible-in-the-app-boot-process (just this link)

2. https://stackoverflow.com/a/35314367

Reference: my blog article: http://blog.xuite.net/yhunglee/blog/549548212

Here is how you can access session in AppServiceProvider boot method.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35314031/laravel-how-to-access-session-value-in-appserviceprovider/35314367#35314367

I stumbled upon on this issue as well and approached it in another way. For what its worth I used IoC to call the sessions from there and injected it on my partial views. Would love to hear feedback for this.

As I said on StackOverflow, sometimes people seem to forget Laravel is built upon PHP, and completely forget how to use PHP on its behalf.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34577946/how-to-retrieve-session-data-in-service-providers-in-laravel/64821595#64821595