Laravel - HTTP Tests - Session And Authentication

Laravel provides several helpers for interacting with the session during HTTP testing. First, you may set the session data to a given array using the withSession method. This is useful for loading the session with data before issuing a request to your application:

    
    withSession(['banned' => false])->get('/');
        }
    }
	

Laravel's session is typically used to maintain state for the currently authenticated user. Therefore, the actingAs helper method provides a simple way to authenticate a given user as the current user. For example, we may use a model factory to generate and authenticate a user:

    
    create();
    
            $response = $this->actingAs($user)
                             ->withSession(['banned' => false])
                             ->get('/');
        }
    }
	

You may also specify which guard should be used to authenticate the given user by passing the guard name as the second argument to the actingAs method:

    
    $this->actingAs($user, 'web')