Moshiur
Moshiur

Reputation: 685

store sessions into a common database

Basically what I am trying to do is sharing session between laravel applications using a common database. what I've tried so far is

.env

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=login_test
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

DB_DATABASE_ADMIN=login_admin
DB_USERNAME_ADMIN=root
DB_PASSWORD_ADMIN=
SESSION_DRIVER=database
SESSION_CONNECTION=login_admin //getting error here: Database [login_admin] not configured.

session.php

'driver' => env('SESSION_DRIVER', 'file'),
'files' => storage_path('framework/sessions'),
'connection' => env('SESSION_CONNECTION', null),
'table' => 'sessions',

database.php

'mysql' => [
    'driver' => 'mysql',
    'url' => env('DATABASE_URL'),
    'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
    'port' => env('DB_PORT', '3306'),
    'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
    'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
    'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
    'unix_socket' => env('DB_SOCKET', ''),
    'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
    'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
    'prefix' => '',
    'prefix_indexes' => true,
    'strict' => true,
    'engine' => null,
    'options' => extension_loaded('pdo_mysql') ? array_filter([
        PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CA => env('MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CA'),
    ]) : [],
],

'mysql2' => [
    'driver' => 'mysql',
    'url' => env('DATABASE_URL'),
    'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
    'port' => env('DB_PORT', '3306'),
    'database' => env('DB_DATABASE_ADMIN', 'forge'),
    'username' => env('DB_USERNAME_ADMIN', 'forge'),
    'password' => env('', ''),
    'unix_socket' => env('DB_SOCKET', ''),
    'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
    'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
    'prefix' => '',
    'prefix_indexes' => true,
    'strict' => true,
    'engine' => null,
    'options' => extension_loaded('pdo_mysql') ? array_filter([
        PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CA => env('MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CA'),
    ]) : [],
]

so here I want to set the sessions table into my common database named login_admin

I am already sharing a common users table between the projects so I've no issue on connecting multiple databases. I've checked previous relevant questions but did not find how to share the table into common database

Upvotes: 0

Views: 69

Answers (1)

pr1nc3
pr1nc3

Reputation: 8338

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Session Database Connection
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| When using the "database" or "redis" session drivers, you may specify a
| connection that should be used to manage these sessions. This should
| correspond to a connection in your database configuration options.
|
*/

According to your code SESSION_CONNECTION field should be the connection name, which is mysql2 in your case and not login_admin

Upvotes: 2

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