How to access the globals $_SESSION and $_COOKIE from a laravel app?

Question

I am working on a laravel project that needs to work besides a custom php project, because that I need to get access to the pure php globals $_SESSION and $_COOKIE in the la

Answer 1

I had a similar issue with CakePHP a couple of months ago. Basically, the session variables in the Cake application were completely independent of the session variables in the bespoke application that we had. The issue was that Cake uses a different session identifier than PHPSESSID. In the end, I was forced to bridge the gap by forcing Cake to use PHPSESSID. I'm not too familiar with Laravel, but from what I can see (on their main site), they seem to be using "laravel_session" instead of PHPSESSID. This is most likely your issue and there seems to be a topic about this on the offical Laravel forums.