title: Laravel: Sessions not saving
body: <p>So I've read through all the Laravel sessions information and all the stackoverflow questions about Laravel sessions but it's just no help.</p>
  
  <p>Im trying to store the username when I'm logging in, and I want it to show the whole time I'm logged in on a page. Now when I login I get to the main page and the username shows, and I go back to login, which redirects me to the main page and the username is not there anymore. The code I'm using:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Session::put('username', Input::get('username'));
  $value = Session::get('username');
  return View::make('main')-&gt;with('username',$value);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and then in my main.blade.php:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@if(!empty($username))
       {{$username}}
  @endif
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I'm doing it exactly like all the examples.
  What am I doing wrong here?</p>