Laravel Database Session Full Tutorial - FreeCodeBlog

Hello guys, In this tutorial I will explain about laravel database session. We can easily use database session driver for our laravel project. So let's start to learn about laravel database session.

Before reading this laravel database session tutarial you need to install laravel. If you don't know how to install laravel then read how to install any kind of laravel version tutorial. You can see a session file and information after installed laravel.

1. Laravel Session Information In Env File.

You will see laravel session information in laravel env file. You can change laravel session driver and lifetime from laravel env file. for database session you need to setup database driver.

SESSION_DRIVER=database
SESSION_LIFETIME=120

2. Laravel Session Information In Config Session File.

You will aslo see laravel session information in laravel config session file. You can change laravel session driver and lifetime from laravel session file. you can change laravel session information from config session file.

'driver' => env('SESSION_DRIVER', 'database'),
'lifetime' => env('SESSION_LIFETIME', 120),

3. Laravel Session Information In Database Migration File.

We need to extract laravel database migration file to use laravel  database information. We can change session database migration information.

php artisan session:table

    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('sessions', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->string('id')->primary();
            $table->foreignId('user_id')->nullable()->index();
            $table->string('ip_address', 45)->nullable();
            $table->text('user_agent')->nullable();
            $table->text('payload');
            $table->integer('last_activity')->index();
        });
    }

Thanks.