Have you tryed regular sessions for this task only?

Yes, I have tried to set a $_SESSION variable within Laravel and read it back in the external PHP, but that didn't work. The external PHP is Responsive FileManager. I'm trying to pass a Laravel username to it so I can have it set a home directory path for each user as in the documented $_SESSION["RF"]["subfolder"] ="subfolder/name/"

Any ideas?

$_GLOBAL?

Thanks @slayerfat for the suggestion, but I tried setting both $_GLOBAL['my_var'] and $GLOBALS['my_var'] without any success. I am still unable to access my variable from outside of Laravel.

Surely, there must be a way to read the variable. Am I overlooking something?

use:

It's 2016, but for anyone having this problem:

This might help you out. :)

[https://bgtsworks.blogspot.com/2016/08/access-laravel-session-outside-laravel.html]

djtechonline said:

Ok, after toying around I found that the session path was not on my web root. Once I set the path to "/", I was able to read the session variable outside of Laravel. Here is my example

/*
 Set regular PHP cookie from within Laravel
 Notice the fourth parameter set to /
*/
setcookie("current_user", Auth::user()->username,0,"/");

Now on my external file I can access the variable as follows:

// Read cookie as expected:
echo $_COOKIE['current_user']

This seems to work, but I will test a little bit more. There may be a better, more secure way. If anyone has a better suggestion, please let me know!

Update: I recommend you add a little bit of encryption/decryption when storing/retrieving cookie data and this works well.. I will mark it as a solution in hopes that it helps others.>djtechonline said:

Ok, after toying around I found that the session path was not on my web root. Once I set the path to "/", I was able to read the session variable outside of Laravel. Here is my example

/*
 Set regular PHP cookie from within Laravel
 Notice the fourth parameter set to /
*/
setcookie("current_user", Auth::user()->username,0,"/");

Now on my external file I can access the variable as follows:

// Read cookie as expected:
echo $_COOKIE['current_user']

This seems to work, but I will test a little bit more. There may be a better, more secure way. If anyone has a better suggestion, please let me know!

Update: I recommend you add a little bit of encryption/decryption when storing/retrieving cookie data and this works well.. I will mark it as a solution in hopes that it helps others.

Appreciate your work djtechonline