Does not work with Laravel 5

[MightyPork]

• The laravel-mongodb (for Laravel 5) repo links here
• it can be installed in Laravel 5
• and composer.json seems to suggest it should work - "illuminate/session": "~4.0|~5.0",

however it crashes whenever the driver is selected - some incompatibility with the Symfony session driver.

Error is thrown in Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Session\Storage\Handler\MongoDbSessionHandler on line 73.

[dschreck]

In Laravel 5 set your env value to: SESSION_DRIVER=database

and in config/session.php

'connection' => 'mongodb',

And the MongoDB driver will store values to the DB.

[MightyPork]

@dschreck thanks, but that in fact doesn't work

[omanizer]

I'm currently using this with Laravel 5.2 and it has worked fine until I upgraded the PHP driver.

Are you using the new MongoDB driver rather than PHP's old Mongo drive by chance? I noticed that MongoDbSessionHandler.php is depending on the old Mongo driver.

I modified this file and got it to work again. See this gist:

https://gist.github.com/omanizer/fd3d2693dfd8e79e2244d47ef8b3f808

I'd like to get this implemented into this library so that it will work with the new driver.

[omanizer]

FYI, this ended up being that symfony's MongoDbSessionHandler wasn't itself compatible with the new MongoDb PHP driver at the time. My gist above is no longer necessary when using a later version of Symfony.

[thche]

In Laravel 5 set your env value to: SESSION_DRIVER=database

and in config/session.php

'connection' => 'mongodb',

And the MongoDB driver will store values to the DB.

correction:

Add in .env following lines: SESSION_DRIVER=database SESSION_CONNECTION=mongodb

[MightyPork]

got it working, four years later. thanks, @thche lol