Best way of keeping Cart active after logout

The cart should be related to the user. When the user logs in again, fetch his cart and set the cart ID to the session again.

Also the user can have a remember_me token in the login page, if he checks this box, when he comes back to the site, he will automatically login again. Then you can fetch his cart when he comes back.

Alternatively, you could set a cookie with the cart id which will stay longer even if the user closes the browser. However, what happens if he clears his cookie?

@eriktobben

$cart = session()->pull('cart');
auth()->logout();
session()->put(['cart' => $cart]);

I don't know your code, but this should give you an idea

The default LoginController.php uses the trait AuthenticatesUsers.php . so copy this code to LoginController.php to overwrite it.

public function logout(Request $request) {

$data =  session()->get('cart');

$this->guard()->logout();

$request->session()->invalidate();

$request->session()->regenerate();

session()->put('cart', $data);

return $this->loggedOut($request) ?: redirect('/');

}