laravel 4 persisting data ongoing - jquery ajax submit

Question

I\'m having ongoing problems with laravel 4.1 sessions and getting unexpected behaviour.

Depending on how I call the controllers method the session either works or d

Answer 1

This is in reference to the solution that Ray gave. I had a very similar problem, which your solution resolved. Initially, I had the following on my Controller:

echo json_encode(array('auth' => $auth));

I changed this to:

return Response::json(array('auth' => $auth));

However, this was only part of the solution. In my javascript file, I initially had:

data = $.parseJSON(data);

Which, if I had kept the echo in the controller...would have been needed. apparently Laravel will do some magic behind the scenes when using Response::json() so that the data that is returned is already parsed. Removing that line in my javascript file made everything happy again :)