Why is Laravel's Session::flash behaving inconsistently? - php

While working on a Laravel 4.2 app, I have recently noticed that calls to Session::flash (and similarly Input::flash) sometimes behave inconsistently.
One particular example: I want to flash some data from the edit function so that I can access it in the corresponding update function. The edit view contains a fairly simple form, including one field that is loaded via an AJAX call after the user selects an option from a drop-down. Here is my MCVE:
In MyController.php:
<?php
class MyController {
public function edit($id) {
Session::flash('somevar', "myvalue");
return View::make('edit');
}
public function update($id) {
var_dump(Session::all()); die();
if (Session::has('somevar')) {
// do stuff
}
return Redirect::to('/');
}
}
?>
In AjaxController.php:
<?php
class AjaxController {
public function getinfo() {
return "here's that data you wanted";
}
}
?>
In edit.blade.php:
<script type="text/javascript">
$('form select[name=foo]').change(function() {
$.ajax({
url: '/ajax/getinfo'
success: function(data) {
alert(data);
}
});
});
</script>
Update
Sometimes the session dump in update() will show the flash data, but sometimes it is missing.
What is going wrong?

The issue is the extra AJAX call to populate one of the fields. Since this counts as a request, the flash data is active for that request, but not the next one.
To fix this issue, I added Session::reflash() to the first line of the function triggered by the AJAX call, like so:
<?php
class AjaxController {
public function getinfo() {
Session::reflash();
return "here's that data you wanted";
}
}
?>

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