Check for Session timeout in Laravel

laravel, laravel-3, php

Solution

Just use the same logic as the session class itself.

if ((time() - Session::activity()) > (Config::get('session.lifetime') * 60))
{
   // Session expired
}

Place this in your 'before' filter - and it will run on every request.

Problem

I was just wondering if anyone knew how to check for session timeout in Laravel. You can check whether the session has a specific item: ``` if (Session::has('name')) { $name = Session::get('name'); } ``` But you can't check whether the session has expired. It would be nice so that I can report back to the user in a more specific way. "Your session has timed out, please start again." Any thoughts?

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