laravel dynamic session lifetime

Question

I run multiple websites from a single laravel app. Is it possible to have different session lifetimes for them?

E.g. one site should have the standard 2 hours and another should be 1 year

Looking through the source it seems it reads the config directly... So I'd be interested to see what people can come up with on this one — Chris, Mar 20 '18 at 11:35
Possible duplicate of [Laravel: share session data over multiple domains](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26821648/laravel-share-session-data-over-multiple-domains) — Adam Kozlowski, Mar 20 '18 at 12:52
check also: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/share-session-from-multiple-domains-but-on-same-server — Adam Kozlowski, Mar 20 '18 at 12:52
@AdamKozlowski I do not want to share session between domains. I just want to have different session lifetime values for the different domains — Chris, Mar 20 '18 at 13:16

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 20 '18 at 14:06

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You can set a variable for each domain in the .env file:

SESSION_LIFE_TIME=160

and call this variable in your config file:

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

Hope this works for you.

answered Mar 20 '18 at 14:06

Mahmoud Abdelsattar

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unfortunately the domain is determined dynamically. i.e. it is not known beforehand and therefore I cannot use env variables. I would need a way that allows me to set it on the fly with an if condition – Chris Mar 20 '18 at 14:47
Did you try to create a helper function like `function getSessionPerDomain(){ switch ($domain){ case ('domain1'): return 120; // .. etc. } }` and call it directly in the config ? – Mahmoud Abdelsattar Mar 20 '18 at 14:59

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 11 '22 at 07:13

you can set default laravel session lifetime

config/session.php

'lifetime' => 120

Create Session_life table in database server and add session lifetime value for particular website.
In controller where your login functionality set lifetime comes from table:

$sl = Session_life ::where('website', "www/test1.com")->first();
$defaultSession = $sl->session_value;
$request->session()->put('lifetime', $defaultSession);
config()->set('session.lifetime', $defaultSession);
config(['session.lifetime' =>  $defaultSession]);

Here, Session_life is table name, session_value is lifetime value store in table.

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