I recently faced the same issue when trying to integrate CometChat into project of mine. After a bit trial and error, the following code is what I came up with:

// set up autoloader
$base_path = dirname(dirname(dirname(__FILE__)));
include_once($base_path.'\vendor\autoload.php');

$laravel_db_config_file = $base_path . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'app' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'config' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'database.php';
if (!file_exists($laravel_db_config_file))
{
    echo "Please make sure you have the Cometchat folder in the public folder of your laravel site";
}

include_once($base_path.'\bootstrap\autoload.php');
$app = include_once($base_path.'\bootstrap\start.php');
$config = include_once($laravel_db_config_file);

$dbl = $config['connections']['mysql'];

I am assuming you have an integration file that holds the get_user_id method as well as any configuration. At the point of login on my app, I added a new session key called userid using Session::set('userid', Auth::user()->id). To access this in ArrowChat, simple use:

Session::get('userid')

Your final code should then look like:

if (Session::get('userid')) 
     {
$userid = Session::get('userid');
      }

     return $userid;

Hope this helps a bit...

Emmanuel

thanks for your solution grafikkaos , I am successful to connected to get user_id but I am not unable to chat with others user even with with no friends system (all online) . Any solution ? I just saw the bar only

Hi Andy,

Can you forward me your email address if possible?

Thanks

@grafikkaos one question where did you placed the // set up autoloader code in the cometchat files? in the integration.php?