Session Handling in Laravel

Learn about sessions and their implementation in Laravel.

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.

Sessions in web systems
Sessions in web systems

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 ...