Laravel 5.4 Session is not retaining

Question

Im newbie to laravel, So i got this problem with the session. Im actually fetching a xml response and converting it to an array and storing it to session:

Here is my controller that is accepting the request, convert the response to array and storing it on session.

public function HotelSearch(Request $request){
        $rezlive = new RezLiveSearch();
        $rezliveSearch = $rezlive->hotelSearchByCountry($request);
        $request->session()->put('hotelSearchResult', $rezliveSearch);
        $theResult = $request->session()->get('hotelSearchResult');
        return view('search-result',compact('theResult'));
    }

So it was storing and i can view the search result on my view page. But when i navigate to other pages that session which i just stored is not carried over. I tried to store a normal string and its working fine i can access it all over the application. Any one can help me with this please ?

BTW i'm using laravel 5.4

Answer 1

$rezlive = new RezLiveSearch(); $rezliveSearch = $rezlive->hotelSearchByCountry($request); $request->session()->put('hotelSearchResult', $rezliveSearch);

An resource can't be stored in session.

from php manual

http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.resource.php

A resource is a special variable, holding a reference to an external resource.

You need to fetch the XML data from the resource and store it to session, alternatively you can store into cache the XML , associate it with an random generated ID and avoid placing too much information in session.