Session put does not seem to be working properly-CodePudding

I'm working with Laravel 5.8 and I wanted to make sure that users can submit a form only every 2 hours (as long as a session is alive).

So I tried this at the Controller:

if(Session::has('request_has_been_sent')){
    return redirect()->back()->with('error', 'You just submitted a request and cannot submit a new one');
}else{
    $withDraw = WithdrawWallet::create([
        'balance_value' => $request->balance_wallet,
        'can_draw' => $request->can_draw,
        'shaba_number' => $request->shaba_number,
        'first_name' => $request->first_name,
        'last_name' => $request->last_name,
        'description' => $request->desc,
        'status' => 'pending',
        'user_id' => auth()->user()->usr_id,
    ]);
    Session::put('request_has_been_sent');
}

return redirect()->back()->with('success','Your request was sent');

So by this, everytime a user submits a new request, session request_has_been_sent must be set.

Therefore at the next time user submits the form, if the session was still alive, the message You just submitted a request and cannot submit a new one appears.

But now the problem is it does not work. In fact user can still submit another request, right after submitting a request.

This means that the session is not set somehow.

So what's going wrong here? How can I properly do this?

CodePudding user response：

You can set session using set and put method

Session::put('name','value');

Retrieve it using get

Session::get('name')

So in your case you need to set your session use

Session::put('request_has_been_sent','yes');

And to check if it is set or not use

if(Session::get('request_has_been_sent')){

Docs: https://laravel.com/docs/5.0/session

CodePudding user response：

I think your only problem here is not setting the session value to anything you need to set it to something or else laravel will ignore it.

Session::put('request_has_been_sent', true);

// Check if it exists, this will check if it exists without getting it
Session::has('request_has_been_sent')

CodePudding user response：

Once the user is logged out al the user sesion wil be flushd out. Which means user and create and WithdrawWallet and logout and then login again and then user can create another WithdrawWallet so to fix that you can use cache

$cacheKey = WithdrawWallet::class.'.'.auth()->user()->usr_id;

    if (Cache::has($cacheKey)) {
        return redirect()->back()->with('error', 'You just submitted a request and cannot submit a new one');
    } else {
        $withDraw =  Cache::remember($cacheKey, now()->addHours(2), function () use ($request){
            return  WithdrawWallet::create([
                'balance_value' => $request->balance_wallet,
                'can_draw' => $request->can_draw,
                'shaba_number' => $request->shaba_number,
                'first_name' => $request->first_name,
                'last_name' => $request->last_name,
                'description' => $request->desc,
                'status' => 'pending',
                'user_id' => auth()->user()->usr_id,
            ]);
        });
    
    }

    return redirect()->back()->with('success', 'Your request was sent');