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A MongoDB session driver for Laravel

Laravel Version	Package Version	Install using this command
5.x.x, 6.x	1.x.x	composer require 1ff/laravel-mongodb-session:^1.0
7.x	2.x.x	composer require 1ff/laravel-mongodb-session:^2.0
8.x	3.x.x	composer require 1ff/laravel-mongodb-session:^3.0
9.x	4.x.x	composer require 1ff/laravel-mongodb-session:^4.0

Installation

Install using composer:

composer require 1ff/laravel-mongodb-session

Change the connection in config/session.php to the name of the mongo connection from your config/database.php config

'connection' =>  'mongodb',

Update your .env file and change the SESSION_DRIVER to mongodb

SESSION_DRIVER=mongodb

This driver uses the MongoDB TTL indexes meaning when a session key expires it will be automatically deleted. So no need for garbage collection implementation.
This way, the collection's size will remain around the size you expect and won't get falsely filled with unused data.
The package automatically adds a migration which creates the index. If you change the name of the session.table you should rerun the ttl index creation command php artisan mongodb:session:index.