Session Handling in Laravel
Explore how to handle user sessions in Laravel to maintain authentication and track user data across requests. Understand session management techniques, including creating, reading, checking, and destroying sessions, as well as how to display session data in Blade views. This lesson equips you with practical skills to implement secure session handling for web applications.
Introduction
In the web development domain, a session plays a significant role in maintaining and tracking user-specific information. The session can be used to memorize users’ information across multiple requests and pages. Conditional access to web pages is implemented with sessions.
Utilization of cookies in sessions
Browser cookies are used to implement sessions. Whenever a session is created by the server side, the server sends a set-cookie HTTP header to the client’s browser, which contains the session ID as a cookie value. The browser stores this cookie and automatically includes it in subsequent requests to the same domain.
The cookie containing the session ID ...