swinburne/laravel-session-started-event

Fires an event when a session is started in Laravel for use in service providers

Laravel Session Started Event

This package fires an event which can be used in service providers (or indeed anywhere an an application) to execute code when a session is started., _(*1)

Installation

Add the service provider to the providers array in config/app.php., _(*2)

'providers' => [
    ...
    Swinburne\LaravelSessionStarted\SessionStartedServiceProvider::class,
    ...
],

Replace the existing Laravel StartSession middleware with that from this package in app/Http/Kernel.php. It's in the web group by default., _(*3)

Replace, _(*4)

\Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class

With, _(*5)

\Swinburne\LaravelSessionStarted\Http\Middleware\StartSession::class

For example, _(*6)

protected $middlewareGroups = [
    'web' => [
        ...
        \Swinburne\LaravelSessionStarted\Http\Middleware\StartSession::class,
        ...
    ]
    ...

Usage

Once installed you may listen for the following event which is fired upon session start., _(*7)

\Swinburne\LaravelSessionStarted\Events\SessionStarted

For example, in the boot() method of a service provider you may listen to the event in the following way., _(*8)

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Event;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
use Swinburne\LaravelSessionStarted\Events\SessionStarted;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
    * Boot the application services.
    *
    * @return void
    */
    public function boot()
    {
        Event::listen(SessionStarted::class, function ($event) {
            echo "My session was started";
        });
    }
}