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Session Configuration

File System Sessions
Database Sessions
Memcached Sessions

The web is a stateless environment. This means that each request to your application is considered unrelated to any previous request. However, sessions allow you to store arbitrary data for each visitor to your application. The session data for each visitor is stored on your web server, while a cookie containing a session ID is stored on the visitor's machine. This cookie allows your application to "remember" the session for that user and retrieve their session data on subsequent requests to your application.

Sound complicated? If so, don't worry about it. Just tell Laravel where to store the sessions and it will take care of the rest.

Three great session drivers are available out of the box:

File System
Database
Memcached

File System Sessions

Most likely, your application will work great using file system sessions. However, if your application receives heavy traffic or runs on a server farm, use database or Memcached sessions.

To get started using file system sessions, just set the driver option in the application/config/session.php file:

'driver' => 'file'

That's it. You're ready to go!

Note: File system sessions are stored in the application/storage/sessions directory, so make sure it's writeable.

Database Sessions

To start using database sessions, you will first need to configure your database connection.

Already setup your database? Nice! Next, you will need to create a session table. Here are some SQL statements to help you get started:

SQLite

CREATE TABLE "sessions" (
     "id" VARCHAR PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL UNIQUE,
     "last_activity" INTEGER NOT NULL,
     "data" TEXT NOT NULL
);

MySQL

CREATE TABLE `sessions` (
     `id` VARCHAR(40) NOT NULL,
     `last_activity` INT(10) NOT NULL,
     `data` TEXT NOT NULL,
     PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
);

If you would like to use a different table name, simply change the table option in the application/config/session.php file:

'table' => 'sessions'

Great! All you need to do now is set the driver in the application/config/session.php file:

'driver' => 'db'

Memcached Sessions

Before using Memcached sessions, you must configure your Memcached servers.

All done? Great! Just set the driver in the application/config/session.php file:

'driver' => 'memcached'

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