Laravel Session Cheat Sheet: Quick Guide for Efficient Backend Development

Session is a helper class in Laravel that offers convenient methods for setting and retrieving session data, enabling rapid development of backend applications.

Common Session Methods

Session::get('key'); // Retrieve an entry from the session
Session::get('key', 'default'); // Retrieve with a default value
Session::get('key', function(){ return 'default'; }); // Retrieve with a lazy default value
Session::getId(); // Get the current session ID
Session::put('key', 'value'); // Store a key/value pair in the session
Session::push('foo.bar', 'value'); // Push a value onto an array session key
Session::all(); // Retrieve all session entries
Session::has('key'); // Check if a key exists in the session
Session::forget('key'); // Remove a specific entry from the session
Session::flush(); // Remove all entries from the session
Session::regenerate(); // Generate a new session identifier
Session::flash('key', 'value'); // Store a temporary flash data entry
Session::reflash(); // Keep all flash data for the next request
Session::keep(['key1', 'key2']); // Preserve specific flash data for the next request