Cookie Tag

Retrieving Cookie Data

You can use {{ cookie }} as a tag pair to access any cookie data that has been set.

{{ cookie }}
    {{ oreo }}
{{ /cookie }}

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You can also retrieve single variables with a single tag syntax.

{{ cookie:oreo }}

Checking

You can check if a cookie exists with cookie:has.

{{ if {cookie:has key="has_voted"} === true }}
  You already voted. Thank you!
{{ /if }}

Aliasing

If you need extra markup around your cookie data, you can alias a new child array variable.

{{ cookie as="snack" }}
  {{ snack }}
    {{ message }}
  {{ /snack }}
{{ /cookie }}

Setting

You can set a cookie with cookie:set:

{{ cookie:set my_key="my_value" }}

You can optionally set a number of minutes the cookie is valid for (60 by default):

{{ cookie:set my_key="my_value" minutes="3600" }}

You can set multiple cookies at once and reference interpolated data (references to variables).

{{ cookie:set likes="hats" :visited="url" }}

Forgetting

You can remove cookies by passing the names of the variables into the keys parameter. Pass multiple keys by delimiting them with a pipe.

{{ cookie:forget keys="likes|referral" }}

Accessing Cookies in JavaScript

By default, in Laravel, cookies are encrypted so you will not be able to access the values of any data you set outside of PHP. To exclude specific cookies from encryption follow the steps below:

Laravel 10

To prevent encryption you need to add an exception to the $except array in your app/Http/Middleware/EncryptCookies.php file.

/**
 * The names of the cookies that should not be encrypted.
 *
 * @var array
 */
protected $except = [
    'cookie_name',
];

Laravel 11

To prevent encryption you need to use the encryptCookies method in your application's bootstrap/app.php file:

->withMiddleware(function (Middleware $middleware) {
    $middleware->encryptCookies(except: [
        'cookie_name',
    ]);
})