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Hey @JennySwift Did you ever solve this? I have the same scenario that I need to resolve...
Sep 19, 2016
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Dynamic session lifetime?
Hi, is it possible to make the Laravel session lifetime dynamic? I want the user to be able to choose how long they can be inactive for until they are automatically logged out.
It seems I can only enter a static value for 'lifetime' in config/session.php.
So I coded the functionality in the frontend, then realized it only logged the user out if they had the app open in the browser when the time was up. :)
Could anyone please give me direction on how to do it please?
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Shooting blanks here, @atherhashmi maybe pull off something like this https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/how-to-access-auth-user-details-in-config-files
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Config::set('sessions.lifetime', $someValue);
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@crnkovic Thanks, this is helpful.
I am looking for a way to override the session timeout (which I can now do using your hint). Yii has a method onBeginRequest where I used to override session timeout, what is the best place to use Config::set('sessions.lifetime', $someValue); in Laravel 5.6?
I am a Laravel newbie so if you could go into a bit of detail, it'd be really helpful. Thanks.
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@crnkovic BTW, the key should be session.lifetime, you've got sessions.lifetime with an 's'. :)
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@crnkovic Hey again...
I think I managed to do that myself. I needed to override session.lifetime and some other config before every web request.
I wrote a middleware, LoadConfig, added it to app/Http/Kernel in the web middleware group and voila, all my requests have the updated config without doing any extra work.
Thanks for the hint, it helped.
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@atherhashmi hey, mind to share how you implement the code ?
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