CometChat integration with laravel 5.1

Question

My question relates to integrating CometChat with laravel 5.1.

I'm trying to give access to Laravel within the integration.php file of Cometchat. I want to give access to the Session class so I can access the session info from the database (by default Cometchat uses file sessions). For the moment I have switched Laravel to use file sessions.

So how can I get access to sessions from Laravel so I can access it within the integration.php file?

Answer 1

Ok I think I have worked it out. The following code gives me access to the existing Laravel app and I am able to access Session and even Sentinel.

I also added an include that points to vendor/autoload.php, which has now given me access to the QueryBuilder and other systems.

At the top of integration.php I have:

// integration.php includes the laravel files to give access, it just
// didn't use it fully

$app->make('Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel')->handle(Illuminate\Http\Request::capture());

$id = $app['encrypter']->decrypt($_COOKIE[$app['config']['session.cookie']]);
$app['session']->driver()->setId($id);
$app['session']->driver()->start();

This returns the current running Laravel, and I am then able to do something like $app['session']->get('dataname')

Though with the added vendor/autoload.php I can now also access DB::table or Sentinel::getUser(), etc

Answer 2

Please add the following line after include_once( dirname(dirname(dirname(__FILE__))).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'bootstrap'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'app.php'); line.

include_once( dirname(dirname(dirname(__FILE__))).DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'app'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'Http'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'Controllers'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'Auth'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'app.php');

Replace the getUserID() function with following in integration.php file, or you can download the CometChat package for Laravel 5 from http://my.cometchat.com

function getUserID() {
    $userid = 0;
    if (!empty($_SESSION['basedata']) && $_SESSION['basedata'] != 'null') {
        $_REQUEST['basedata'] = $_SESSION['basedata'];
    }

    if (!empty($_REQUEST['basedata'])) {
        if (function_exists('mcrypt_encrypt') && defined('ENCRYPT_USERID') && ENCRYPT_USERID == '1') {
            $key = "";
            if( defined('KEY_A') && defined('KEY_B') && defined('KEY_C') ){
                $key = KEY_A.KEY_B.KEY_C;
            }
            $uid = rtrim(mcrypt_decrypt(MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256, md5($key), base64_decode(rawurldecode($_REQUEST['basedata'])), MCRYPT_MODE_CBC, md5(md5($key))), "\0");
            if (intval($uid) > 0) {
                $userid = $uid;
            }
        } else {
            $userid = $_REQUEST['basedata'];
        }
    }
    if (!empty($_COOKIE['laravel_session'])) {    
        $app = app();
        $kernel = $app->make('Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel');
        $response = $kernel->handle(
            $request = Illuminate\Http\Request::capture()
            );
        $id = $app['encrypter']->decrypt($_COOKIE[$app['config']['session.cookie']]);
        $app['session']->driver()->setId($id);
        $app['session']->driver()->start();
        if($app['auth']->user()!= NULL){
            $userid = $app['auth']->user()->id;
        }
    }
    $userid = intval($userid);
    return $userid;
}