Using my own cookies

[aliajoudanian]

I automatically generate the specific cookie for visitors. Even after setting up the name of the cookie in config.php & tracker.php, I'm not able to store the value of my cookie in user's browser and It uses default Tracker cookie model. How can I store my own cookie value?

[mohabhassan]

You can't ? Tracker uses php's function session_start() while the function used to change the cookie name session_name() if you can implement it and pull request would be awesome,

[antonioribeiro]

@mohabhassan, we would have to take a better look to that now. Tracker is only using PHP native sessions because Laravel, at the time, was dropping sessions and creating new ones "too frequently", is it still doing this? I'm not sure. For instance, after login you get a new session ID or Laravel keeps the old one?

[mohabhassan]

I don't know tbh, but since laravel 4.2 multiple session drivers exist, https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/session#introduction Cookie session is there too, these option exist in config/session.php too:

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Session Lifetime
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here you may specify the number of minutes that you wish the session
| to be allowed to remain idle before it expires. If you want them
| to immediately expire on the browser closing, set that option.
|
*/

'lifetime' => env('SESSION_LIFETIME',120),

'expire_on_close' => false,

[mohabhassan]

This would need further research.