laravel and multi-sessions from the same browser

Question

In our web app, If I use a single browser, login to our application as user A, open another tab and login as user B - User A loses his session data. I assume this is due to a shared cookie made out with the user-agent. Is there a way to concat its name with a username? so that sessions can co-exist between concurrent logged in users using the same browser on the same machine?

We use Laravel 5. Is there any way around it?

Answer 1

Multi userlogin with same browser like google add account. for that you need follow some steps and re-write auth library which provided by the Laravel,

Steps

Tack backup of your Auth file.

Change all session store functionality to store it first in array and then store that array to session

Now you need to create the new session variable which will store the current user instance id like user 0 1 2 ...

Now you need to change all the function from you will get the values from the session you need to check if the session object is empty then user is logout else you need to get data of the user base on the user instance.

You need to change your instance when user want to switch from one account to another.

Answer 2

Different seesions coexist between concurrent logged in users cannot just only implemented by session cookie,because cookie is stored by browser. So the logged in user's seesion must be stored by Server. As all we know, Once session_start is called,SessionID is created and then temp file is created in server's temporary directory.

Diffent user has different SessionID and after session_destory called then all SessionIDs stored in Server and Cookies are recovered. You can rewrite this behavior by implementing SessionHandlerInterface. Of cause many web framework support this,Laravel has not exception. Here is the document: custom-session-drivers