How to authenticate user without a DB in Laravel? - php

Question

I created a new project in Laravel that consumes all data from an API. For private data like a user profile, I need an access token to get the data.
Once I have an access token, how do I set the token as Auth::id() in Laravel? Or perhaps I can store the user profile as Auth::user() so that I can use #auth in a frontend blade file?
class CustomAuthController extends Controller
{
public function index()
{
return view('login');
}
public function store(Request $request)
{
$request->validate([
'phone' => 'required|numeric'
]);
$data = [
'phone' => $request->phone
];
$codeSent = GeneralFunction::WebRequestPublicApi('first-login', $data, null, null, null, true);
if($codeSent->status == "success")
{
return redirect('verify');
} else {
$errors = new MessageBag();
$errors->add("phone", "Invalid phone number");
return view('login')->withErrors($errors);
}
}
public function showVerify()
{
return view('verify');
}
public function verify(Request $request)
{
try {
$request->validate([
'verify' => 'required|size:6'
]);
$data = [
'token_code' => $request->verify,
'source' => 'web'
];
$token = GeneralFunction::WebRequestPublicApi('verify-login', $data, null, null, null, true);
if($token->status === "success")
{
$userData = GeneralFunction::WebRequestPublicApi('membership', null, 'GET', null, null, true, $token->results->access_token);
if($userData->status !== "error")
{
$user = (array) $userData->results[0];
$request->session()->put('token', $token->results->access_token);
Auth::attempt($user, false, false);
return redirect('/');
}
} else {
$errors = new MessageBag();
$errors->add("verify", "Invalid Token");
return view('verify')->withErrors($errors);
}
} catch (Exception $e) {
$errors = new MessageBag();
$errors->add("verify", $e->getMessage());
return view('verify')->withErrors($errors);
}
}
}
I tried using Auth::attempt, Auth::login(), and the other method, but all of these required a user table. My project does not have a database.

Answer 1

You can do something like following.
In the controller
if($auth_ok)
{
session(['user' => ['key' => 'value', 'key2' => 'value2'] ]); // set session data
return view('frontend');
}
In the view
$user = session('user', false);
#if(!$user) // if not logged in
do something
#else // logged in successfully
Welcome my user
#endif
Hope this helps.

Answer 2

i guess the best thing you need to do is to use sqlite and once you got login from your api create a new user from it or find if there is existing already and Auth::login($newUser);