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Colin Cheung
Colin Cheung

Reputation: 270

Laravel - Authentication via external API

Firstly I'm a real beginner with Laravel so I will try to describe my problem as best as I can.

I am building a website using Laravel however the information on users will not be stored on my server but rather externally on another server.

The only way to access the user's data is through an external API; I am not allowed access to their database. The API request returns a token and I use this token to check with their server to see if the user is logged in.

My question is: how do I authenticate the user so that I can still use Laravel's out of the box guards.

It's really handy to use methods like Auth::check() to determine if the user is still logged in.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 6274

Answers (1)

roric32
roric32

Reputation: 31

You'll either need to modify Laravel's default authentication middleware in app/Http/middleware/Authenticate.php or you'll need to create your own middleware class that runs the authentication that you need. Create a class in the app/Http/middleware folder and register that middleware. https://laravel.com/docs/master/middleware

Upvotes: 3

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