Laravel sessions regenerating on every load

Question

I\'m having a lot of problems and I really can\'t seem to find a solution.

Yesterday, I finished up doing some work on a vagrant box in Laravel. When I shut down the com

Answer 1

My problem was that I had echo statements in my function. It was keeping the session from being properly created/stored.

I had an echo before my 'return Redirect' so the redirect didn't get the session...

public function login()
{
    // auth
    if (Auth::attempt(Input::only('email', 'password'), true))
    {
        return Redirect::route('companies.index');
    }
    // failed -> back to login
    return Redirect::back()->withErrors(['email' => 'Login failed.'])->withInput();
}

Details: http://brainwashinc.com/2014/02/17/laravel-sessions-not-working-in-4-1/