Laravel 5.6 Session takes newly created user after registration - php

Question

In my application I made use of the php artisan make:auth command to provide some early on user login & registration scaffolding.
It has come to my attention that everytime I create a new user whilst being logged in as i.e. UserX, my user changes after submitting the registration to the newly created user.
Example below:
BEFORE REGISTRATION
Logged in as UserX
AFTER REGISTRATION
Logged in as UserZ (newly registered user)
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I am wondering how I can make it so that when I create a new user through registration, the system retains the user that was logged in instead of taking on the newly registered user.
Below is the register controller:
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<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers\Auth;
use App\User;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Validator;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\RegistersUsers;
class RegisterController extends Controller
{
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Register Controller
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This controller handles the registration of new users as well as their
| validation and creation. By default this controller uses a trait to
| provide this functionality without requiring any additional code.
|
*/
use RegistersUsers;
/**
* Where to redirect users after registration.
*
* #var string
*/
protected $redirectTo = '/home';
/**
* Create a new controller instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct()
{
$this->middleware('auth');
}
/**
* Get a validator for an incoming registration request.
*
* #param array $data
* #return \Illuminate\Contracts\Validation\Validator
*/
protected function validator(array $data)
{
return Validator::make($data, [
'name' => 'required|string|max:255',
'email' => 'required|string|email|max:255|unique:users',
'password' => 'required|string|min:6|confirmed',
]);
}
/**
* Create a new user instance after a valid registration.
*
* #param array $data
* #return \App\User
*/
protected function create(array $data)
{
return User::create([
'name' => $data['name'],
'email' => $data['email'],
'password' => Hash::make($data['password']),
]);
}
}

Answer 1

If you need to provide users the ability to add new users you should do so through a UsersController.
Now your new controller won't take on the behaviour of registration. This would also make logic in your application clearer since you are not registering a user, you are creating a new one.
To expand a little, the RegisterController executes the following code when you register a user (through use Auth\RegisteredUsers register method).
$this->guard()->login($user);
return $this->registered($request, $user)
?: redirect($this->redirectPath());
So in essence you must follow the approach I mention above unless you remove "use RegisteredUsers;" from the RegisterController which would not generally be recommended. Using your separate controller / behaviour allows you to create additional logic such as checking for user type (e.g. Admin User) before allowing to create a user etc. etc.