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user5694966

Reputation:

auth()->user() is null in Laravel 5.2

I just update the composer to Laravel 5.2 and not able to view password protected pages. Basically below line of code is not working.

auth()->user()

Can somebody suggest why this is not working ?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 11138

Answers (4)

Precastic
Precastic

Reputation: 4021

For those who don't want to blindly add middleware to routes, you simply need to add the classes that manage cookies & sessions to the relevant middleware group (api in my case). For me those classes where:

\App\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class,
\Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,

This is how my App\Http\Kernel::$middleWare variable ended up looking:

protected $middlewareGroups = [
    'web' => [
        ...
    ],

    'api' => [
        'throttle:60,1',
        \App\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class,
        \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
        \Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\SubstituteBindings::class,
        \Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\Authenticate::class
    ],
];

Using Laravel 5.3

Upvotes: 1

Илья Савич
Илья Савич

Reputation: 734

May it will help someone else. But don't forget to see what the guard you are using. For example, for admins you may not default guard, but create your own. Don't forget it. Calling \Auth::guard($guard)->user()

Upvotes: 5

Yilmazerhakan
Yilmazerhakan

Reputation: 1875

In Laravel 5.2 upgrade, routes that use Auth must be in web middleware group.

I solved this problem in app/Http/Kernel.php moving web middleware groups to global middlewares.

protected $middleware = [
    \Illuminate\Foundation\Http\Middleware\CheckForMaintenanceMode::class,
    \App\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies::class,
    \Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\AddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
    \Illuminate\Session\Middleware\StartSession::class,
    \Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class,
    \App\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken::class
];

Upvotes: 7

lagbox
lagbox

Reputation: 50541

Make sure any routes that require sessions (which Auth uses) are behind the 'web' middleware group.

Route::group(['middleware' => 'web'], function () {
    // your routes
});

This is a change that is new to 5.2. By default routes do not have this middleware stack applied. The web middleware group sets the session store, cookies, and csrf protection.

Upvotes: 19

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