Laravel session driver file or database

 Laravel Session Driver database

To use the session driver database we need to make the following changes.

Updated .env file as follows:

SESSION_DRIVER=database

Make sure session_driver is set  config/session.php

'driver' => env('SESSION_DRIVER', 'database'),

Now run the command and create a session migration  

php artisan session:table

The above command will create a migration of the session table.

 To create a session table we need to run the laravel artisan command. 

php artisan migrate

You will see the session table structure something

create table sessions

(

  id varchar(255) not null,

  user_id int(10) unsigned null,

  ip_address varchar(45) null,

  user_agent text null,

  payload text not null,

  last_activity int not null,

  constraint sessions_id_unique

  unique (id)

);

If all goes well then laravel sessions will be stored in the database session table. 

Laravel Session Driver File

We need to update the session drive in .env to file 

SESSION_DRIVER=file

That is all we need to do if we want to use the file as a session driver file.