Log in a user based on value Laravel - php

Question

I am verifying user's account via email and I want to redirect the user directly to home page after account is verified.
The issue I am having is that I am not sure how to actually log in the user using login function.
class VerificationController extends Controller {
public function verify($token){
User::where('email_token',$token)->firstOrFail()->verified();
// auth()->login($user); works if $user exists
return redirect('/home');
}
}
Can I log in the user based on the email_token? I tried but it doesn't seem to work as expected.

Answer 1

You are on the right way. You just need to get the User instance and pass it to the login Method of the Auth class. I've made an example controller for you to show how this could be done.
class VerificationController extends Controller
{
public function verify($token)
{
// Fetch the user by the email token from the database.
// #firstOrFail returns the first matching user or aborts
// the request with a 404 error.
$user = User::where('email_token', $token)->firstOrFail();
// Activate your user or whatever this method does.
$user->verified();
// Logs the Client who did this web request into the
// User account fetched above in.
Auth::login($user);
// Redirect to wherever you want.
return redirect('/home');
}
}
Read more about authenticating users in the official documentation:
https://laravel.com/docs/authentication#other-authentication-methods

Answer 2

First, you have to configure login model in providers section in config/auth.php
Some changes have to made in login model also
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Auth\Authenticatable;
class ModelName extends Model implements \Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable
{
use Authenticatable;
}
and in your controller
if (!Auth::attempt(['username' => $username, 'password' => $password])) {
return redirect()->back()->with(['error' => 'Could Not Log You In!']);
} else {
return redirect()->route('routeName');
}
or did you ask to manually authenticate the user from a controller, here is the solution also
Auth::login($user);
where $user is the login model record of corresponding user