Use custom middleware in controller - php

Question

I created middleware: php artisan make:middleware CheckUserStatus
In this middleware I have:
namespace App\Http\Middleware;
use Closure;
class CheckUserStatus
{
/**
* Handle an incoming request.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #param \Closure $next
* #return mixed
*/
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
if(Auth()->check() AND Auth()->user()->status === 0) { // user is logged in but it is blocked
auth()->logout();
return redirect('/');
}
return $next($request);
}
}
Then, one of my controller I have:
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Middleware\CheckUserStatus;
class productsController extends Controller
{
public function __construct () {
$this->middleware('auth');
$this->middleware('CheckUserStatus');
}
}
This gives ReflectionException - Class CheckUserStatus does not exist
What I'm doing wrong ?

Answer 1

You need to register your middleware if you want to reference it by a string key. Check out the docs here.
Alternatively, you could use the fully qualified class name: try CheckUserStatus::class instead of 'CheckUserStatus'.

Answer 2

You need to use the fully qualified class name:
Either:
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class productsController extends Controller
{
public function __construct () {
$this->middleware('auth');
$this->middleware('\App\Http\Middleware\CheckUserStatus');
}
}
or
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Middleware\CheckUserStatus;
class productsController extends Controller
{
public function __construct () {
$this->middleware('auth');
$this->middleware(CheckUserStatus::class); //No quotes
}
}

Answer 3

You need to add your middleware in kernel.php
protected $routeMiddleware = [
'your_desire_name'=>\App\Http\Middleware\CheckUserStatus::class,
];