CometChat integration with laravel 5.1

My question relates to integrating CometChat with laravel 5.1.

I'm trying to give access to Laravel within the integration.php file of Cometchat. I want to give access to the Session class so I can access the session info from the database (by default Cometchat uses file sessions). For the moment I have switched Laravel to use file sessions.

So how can I get access to sessions from Laravel so I can access it within the integration.php file?

via Chebli Mohamed