Sharing the Laravel session with NodeJS for Socket.io Video/Series Request

@Ruffles While your waiting...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25532692/how-to-share-sessions-with-socket-io-1-x-and-express-4-x

+1

+1 for sure. I would love to see this video. I struggled with this for many hours.

I had found a good solution for this about a year ago. I decided to make it a module, its really easy to use. helps you get the cookie without hard coding it. helps you get that session Id and retrieve it from mysql and redis

https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-laravel-session

this way you can share all of your session. you can also utilize the session in order to sign up a user to certain rooms

@spearmootz I've found a different approach and I've finished the feature few months ago. Thanks for sharing the package!

please Ruffles could you share us your solution and is it secure ?

I executed and artisan command on the node server to get the user data and attach it to the socket object so I have it anywhere on my nodeJS server.

@spearmootz , I try your package for a while and got no success

let session = cookie.parse(req.headers.cookie).laravel_session;

I understand req is request, but where it coming from, even try install express but got no success, could you clarify it more on tutorial?

P/s: haven't get to that, but redisConnection, how it should be format, where it comming from too, thank you :)

@Ruffles , how you find back the user from node? I'm trying your method:

var server = require('http').createServer()
var cookie = require('cookie')
var io = require('socket.io')(server)

io.on('connection', function(socketObject) {
    var cookies = cookie.parse(socketObject.handshake.headers.cookie)
    console.log(cookies.laravel_session)
})

server.listen(3000)

I can take out the laravel_session, but how from that can trace back to user object (can't find it from laravel api), or you using different approach, please guide me :D

I executed and artisan command on the node server to get the user data and attach it to the socket object so I have it anywhere on my nodeJS server.

I didn't use any cookies or session for this. I tried it but it seemed a little bit more complicated, I needed to get the session and do some encode / decode magic but I failed.

I'm still experimenting, will update you when it done @Ruffles , currently it looking nice enough:

php artisan tinker

use Illuminate\Auth\AuthManager;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Application;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\LoadConfiguration;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\SetRequestForConsole;


$app = new Application(getcwd());
$auth = new AuthManager($app);

$l = new LoadConfiguration;
$l->bootstrap($app);

$s = new SetRequestForConsole;
$s->bootstrap($app);

$app->registerConfiguredProviders();

$auth->check(); //false, currently I'm passing no session to it

(It look simple, but I put up a real good fight with it)

@Ruffles , damn hard, but I crack it

php artisan tinker

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Encryption\Encrypter;
use Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\LoadConfiguration;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\SetRequestForConsole;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request as SymfonyRequest;


$key = base64_decode('HoEXdquDDDXR20pZy7QleR7FTGZZXix1JeHwDv5Hhh8=');

$sr = new SymfonyRequest;
$sr->initialize([], [], [], ['laravel_session' => 'eyJpdiI6IjhOcFROekxpamU1U0oyYjIzZkw2TlE9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiZUo0TmJTZURuS2RTVXc1SVY0cWU3XC9BcVwva2NnUFAzUmI0K2NwTXlzd3BibEpncFwvdzZKNEZpMTlmaWxLZHRmTGd5cXZPTWszS1BuNG5vOGRVWkVKSFE9PSIsIm1hYyI6Ijg3MzFhMTAzZDUwZjdmZjY4MDZkYmY5ZDQ3ZDA1ZTYxOWEwYmNiYTBhNmI0ZTNhY2Q2NzMzY2YzMTIzMjdhYTQifQ==']);

$app = new Illuminate\Foundation\Application(getcwd());

$app->singleton(
    Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel::class,
    App\Http\Kernel::class
);

$app->handle($sr);

$auth = new Illuminate\Auth\AuthManager($app);

$auth->user(); //miracle :D

cool, I would've never thought of doing it this way :)