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Get the most accurate request time from Laravel to be used in the frontend

I need to get an accurate timestamp of the request in order to then calculate the session end time

I need the timestamp in the layout to be available globally for some JS script, so right now I store it in the layout file:

// layout.blade.php

<div id="request-timestamp" data-request-timestamp="{{ now()->timestamp }}"></div>

Then I can access it using JS:

const requestTimestamp = document.getElementById("request-timestamp").dataset.requestTimestamp;

But, is there a way to get a more accurate timestamp to the time where Laravel actually saves the session time? Because in my app, there are a few DB connections before it actually gets to the frontend, so it might be less accurate.

Can I somehow send the request timestamp to the layout file in a more accurate way?

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    I ended up using the LARAVEL_START constant that is defined in the public/index.php file, which returns the unix timestamp:

    // public/index.php

define('LARAVEL_START', microtime(true));

    And then set it in a div:

     <div id="request-timestamp" data-request-timestamp="{{ LARAVEL_START }}"></div>

    That works pretty well.


  2. 0

    To ensure that the timestamp is as close as possible to the server-side request processing, you can get it in the controller and pass it directly to the view.

    Controller

    public function index()
{
    $requestTimestamp = now()->timestamp;
    
    return view('your_view', compact('requestTimestamp'));
}

    Script

    <script>
    const requestTimestamp = {{ $requestTimestamp }};
</script>
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