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Decoding Cookies

3:09 with Alena Holligan

We have an auth cookie being set on login and removed on logout. Now we need to switch our authentication to use this cookie instead of the session. 

function decodeAuthCookie($prop = null)
{
  $cookie = json_decode(request()->cookies->get('auth'));
  if ($prop === null) {
    return $cookie;
  }
  if (!isset($cookie->$prop)) {
    return false;
  }
  return $cookie->$prop;
}

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    Now we need to switch our authentication to use this cookie instead of the session. 0:00
    Let's create a helper function to make it easier to read the cookie properties. 0:03
    Function DecodeAuthCookie(). 0:08
    Cookie = json_decode(request() 0:19
    cookies->get('auth') and 0:27

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