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Tim
Tim

Reputation: 73

Laravel 5.2 authentication

I've been trying to get the new release (5.2) of Laravel to work with a simple web app. However, I'm having a problem with authentication.

All pages of the app include a navigation view partial which uses Auth::user()->name to display the username in the nav if they are logged in.

In order to do this, I created a pages controller which loads the auth middleware in the constructor:

public function __construct()
{
    $this->middleware('auth');
}

This works perfectly if the user is logged in. However, if the user is not logged in, they are requested to login on every page. Even pages like "contact" or "about" which clearly should not require authentication to view.

How can I make pages like "about" always accessible while still being able to access Auth in the nav?

EDIT:

Routes

Route::group(['middleware' => ['web']], function () {
    Route::get('/home', 'StaticController@home');
    Route::get('/about', 'StaticController@about');
    Route::get('/contact', 'StaticController@contact');
});

Route::group(['middleware' => 'web'], function () {
    Route::auth();
    Route::get('/', 'HomeController@index');
});

StaticController

class StaticController extends Controller
{
    public function home()
    {
        return view('static.home');
    }
    public function about()
    {
        return view('static.about');
    }
    public function contact()
    {
        return view('static.contact');
    }
}

Navigation

<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
    @if (Auth::guest())
        <li><a href="{{ url('/login') }}">Login</a></li>
        <li><a href="{{ url('/register') }}">Register</a></li>
    @else
        <li class="dropdown">
            <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-expanded="false">
                {{ Auth::user()->name }} <span class="caret"></span>
            </a>

            <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
                 <li><a href="{{ url('/logout') }}"><i class="fa fa-btn fa-sign-out"></i>Logout</a></li>
             </ul>
         </li>
    @endif
</ul>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 340

Answers (4)

Tim
Tim

Reputation: 73

After deleting everything and installing a fresh copy of Laravel the problem disappeared.

Upvotes: 1

Sari Yono
Sari Yono

Reputation: 577

you can do something like this 

        $this->middleware('auth', ['only' => 'update'])

the only will be set on the specified method for example

Upvotes: 0

code-8
code-8

Reputation: 58652

In /app/Http/Kernel.php

check to see if you have 

'auth' => \App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate::class,

Example

protected $routeMiddleware = [

    'auth'           => \App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate::class,
    ....

];

Now, you may need to re-architect your route to something like this

in your routes.php

**//Routes (Not Require Log-in)**


Route::get('/home', 'StaticController@home');
Route::get('/about', 'StaticController@about');
Route::get('/contact', 'StaticController@contact');

**//Authentication Routes**

Route::group(['middleware' => ['auth']], function () {

    Route::get('/', 'HomeController@index');

    //................................
    //   More Auth Routes Go in HERE
    //................................

});

Hope it helps !

Upvotes: 0

user3005369
user3005369

Reputation:

You have two possible solutions:

  1. Route middleware (can get a bit hard to maintain) https://laravel.com/docs/master/middleware#assigning-middleware-to-routes

  2. Within your view partial you could simply have a conditional statement to check or create a method on the Auth facade. This would mean you wouldn't need the conditional. Conditional solution below:

    Auth::check() ? Auth::user()->name : ''

Upvotes: 0

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