Get current Laravel active session from outside laravel instance. Laravel 5.2

auth.php

<?php
/**
 * Get current Laravel active session from outside laravel instance.
 * Tested Laravel 5.2
 * 
 * 
 */
function getLaravelUser()
{
    require __DIR__ . '\path\to\bootstrap\autoload.php';
	  require __DIR__ . '\path\to\bootstrap\app.php';

    $app->make('Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel')->handle(Illuminate\Http\Request::capture());

    $id = $app['encrypter']->decrypt($_COOKIE[$app['config']['session.cookie']]);
    $app['session']->driver()->setId($id);
    $app['session']->driver()->start();

    return $app['auth']->user();
}

USAGE
From any php file outside the laravel instance:

getLaravelUser()->name;

Genius!

Genius!

Glad it still helps people 4 years later. ^_^

@jcbagtas
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