Session put does not seem to be working properly

I’m working with Laravel 5.8 and I wanted to make sure that users can submit a form only every 2 hours (as long as a session is alive).

So I tried this at the Controller:

if(Session::has('request_has_been_sent')){
    return redirect()->back()->with('error', 'You just submitted a request and cannot submit a new one');
}else{
    $withDraw = WithdrawWallet::create([
        'balance_value' => $request->balance_wallet,
        'can_draw' => $request->can_draw,
        'shaba_number' => $request->shaba_number,
        'first_name' => $request->first_name,
        'last_name' => $request->last_name,
        'description' => $request->desc,
        'status' => 'pending',
        'user_id' => auth()->user()->usr_id,
    ]);
    Session::put('request_has_been_sent');
}

return redirect()->back()->with('success','Your request was sent');

So by this, everytime a user submits a new request, session request_has_been_sent must be set.

Therefore at the next time user submits the form, if the session was still alive, the message You just submitted a request and cannot submit a new one appears.

But now the problem is it does not work. In fact user can still submit another request, right after submitting a request.

This means that the session is not set somehow.

So what’s going wrong here? How can I properly do this?

Answer

You can set session using set and put method

Session::put('name','value');

Retrieve it using get

Session::get('name')

So in your case you need to set your session use

Session::put('request_has_been_sent','yes');

And to check if it is set or not use

if(Session::get('request_has_been_sent')){

Docs: https://laravel.com/docs/5.0/session