Retrieve last item in Session:: - php

Question

I was wondering how i could retrieve the last instance in the Session named smartBacklinks.
Here is the code
if(Session::has('smartBacklinks'))
{
// if(Request::header('referer') === LAST ITEM IN SESSION[smartBacklinks] ARRAY)
Session::push('smartBacklinks', Request::header('referer'));
}
else
{
Session::put('smartBacklinks', [Request::header('referer')]);
}
Also how do i retrieve this from a blade template ?

Answer 1

You can retrieve 'smartBacklinks' from the session based on the key like so:
$value = Session::get('smartBacklinks');
Also, you may want to note that you'd use Session::push() for pushing into an array session value and use Session::put() to simply store an item in session.
Retrieving the value from blade:
I guess you could pass the variable just retrieved to the view from the controller like so:
return View::make('foo.bar', array('smartBacklinks' => $value));
then use it in blade like so:
Go back
Hope that helps.

Answer 2

I edited my code alot and it is now functioning. I still need to add a few tweaks to make it behave 100% as i need it
The code looks like this right now:
if(Session::has('smartBacklinks')){
// Get the last item in Session array
$slice = array_slice(Session::get('smartBacklinks'), -1, 1);
// Check if Request::header('referer') is equal to the $slide[0]
if(Request::header('referer') != $slice[0]){
// Check if Request::header('referer') is empty
if(Request::header('referer') != '') Session::push('smartBacklinks', Request::header('referer'));
}
// If session[smartBacklinks] is not set. - Set
}else {
Session::put('smartBacklinks', [Request::header('referer')]);
$slice = array_slice(Session::get('smartBacklinks'), -1, 1);
}
Session::save();
Then of course the last instance of the session array is
$slice[0]
The last thing i need to add is:
when "back button" is clicked, it should remove the last instance of the session array, and it should not push URL into the session
I need to make sure that the session is loaded correctly so i dont have to refresh the webpage to get the correct "back URL"
Thanks for the answer!