Set Cookie from URL

Question

I'm totally new to Laravel framework just started learning few days back, and I challenged my self to create cookie based URL. Meaning, if I were to access http://localhost/cookie/nick , it should store a cookie based on cookies/*. I tried to do but I get empty cookie each time. Is it possible to do it? If yes can anyone kindly guide me? Here is my code:-

Routes.php

Route::get('/cookie/{name}','CookieControllerName@setCookieByUrl');

CookieControllerName.php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Http\Response;
use App\Http\Requests;

class CookieControllerName extends Controller
{
        public function getCookie(Request $request){
                $value = $request->cookie('name');
                echo "Hello ".$value;
        }
        public function setCookieByUrl(Request $request, $name){
                $response = new Response('Hello World');
                $response->withCookie(cookie('name', $name, 3600));
                $value = $request->cookie('name');
                echo $value; //For debugging purpose
        //        getCookie();
        }
}

Answer 1

You need to return the $response variable for anything to happen.

Besides that I don't really see how your code could be working since you have a function call to getCookie() that is not even in the scope. And it should be:

$this->getCookie()

Simply replace getCookie() with:

return $response 

Should suffice in atleast getting a proper cookie set.

Complete codeblock:

public function setCookieByUrl(Request $request, $name){
        $response = new Response('Cookie has been set');
        $response->withCookie(cookie('name', $name, 3600));
        return $response;
}

Cookie value is encrypted that is why you won't see it directly.