in laravel 5.2.45 session message does not work, how to fix

@hanif-king Possibly,

1. Check if web middlewareGroup has \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class, inside Kernel.php
2. Ensure your routes that need access to session are grouped like below

Route::group(['middleware' => 'web'], function () {

    // Your routes...

});

Just to debug can you try Session()->put('message', $message) so we can eliminate the possibility of trying to retrieve the data after more than 1 request?

@meeshka this is web middleware

'web' => [
            \App\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class,
            \Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\AddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
            \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
            \Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
            \App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken::class,
        ],

@ksparkar yes i can do that and can get the message too. but how about flash message that only works for a flash message not more?

Here, you're using the session helper function

Session()->flash('message', $message);

session() should be lowercase... it's not the class Session. It's the helper function.

You can also just do this:

$message="something...";

return redirect()->route('soemroute')->with('message', $message);

https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/responses#redirecting-with-flashed-session-data

@Cronix - I tested using the helper with capital casing and it works! Am I missing something? If casing was the issue wouldn't he get an error thrown on that line?

@hanif-king if you are saying that put() works but flash() doesn't then it means you are trying to retrieve the message more than one request later.

@ksparkar Maybe your operating system isn't case sensitive, but linux sure is, which is most likely what the os will be for the production site. If you don't follow how things are supposed to be, you'll have a hell of a lot of fixing to do once you push it to a production server. Everything will just break everywhere.

is message already used by the framework? Might be worth using a different name

@Cronix - Yes I do always use the lower case and never have issues in production. Just trying to see what the issue is here for @hanif-king

BTW - PHP documentation does note that function calls are case insensitive - http://php.net/manual/en/functions.user-defined.php but of course it is not a good practice to introduce inconsistency!

He is saying that put() works but flash() doesn't so perhaps he is trying to retrieve the value after more than 1 request?