Laravel 5 Auth active members - php

Question

There are several similar questions but all of them seem incomplete as they are referring to not existing functions.
I am referring to:
Check for active user state with laravel
Login only if user is active using Laravel
extend laravel 5 built-in authentication to login only "if user == active"
In all of them there are presented solutions mostly to alter functions from AuthController, however those functions are not there.
I am using latest version of Laravel (5.2) so my default mentioned file looks like: https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/master/app/Http/Controllers/Auth/AuthController.php
Now, how do I implement this functionality? I have tried copying public function postLogin() (as suggested in those other mentioned posts) into that AuthController file. Nothing changed.
I am clearly missing something here.
Please someone help!
Edit:
The function that I have added is:
public function postLogin(Request $request)
{
$this->validate($request, [
'email' => 'required|email', 'password' => 'required',
]);
$credentials = $this->getCredentials($request);
// This section is the only change
if (Auth::validate($credentials)) {
$user = Auth::getLastAttempted();
if ($user->active) {
Auth::login($user, $request->has('remember'));
return redirect()->intended($this->redirectPath());
} else {
return redirect($this->loginPath()) // Change this to redirect elsewhere
->withInput($request->only('email', 'remember'))
->withErrors([
'active' => 'You must be active to login.'
]);
}
}
return redirect($this->loginPath())
->withInput($request->only('email', 'remember'))
->withErrors([
'email' => $this->getFailedLoginMessage(),
]);
}

Answer 1

Most functionality in AuthController is added using traits. Note this line in the beginning of the class:
use AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers, ThrottlesLogins;
If you look at AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers you can see that it does have a postLogin method.
As of why implementing this method doesn't work: I think you are missing the $request parameter in the method signature.
Add a larger code snippet to your question if this isn't the case.
EDIT: for future debugging: php artisan route:list gives you a list of which routes call which methods. This can give you a hint to which method to override.

Answer 2

So, for everyone facing the same problem on Laravel 5.2 with Authentication provided by php artisan make:auth.
First important thing is to understand that Route::auth(); points to login function and not postLogin(Thank you #lagbox!)
Then you will have to update AuthController:
Add on top of the file:
use Auth;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
Add somewhere after use AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers, ThrottlesLogins; :
/**
* Where to redirect users if login is unsuccessufull.
*
* #var string
*/
protected $loginPath = '/login';`
And the updated login function:
public function login(Request $request)
{
$this->validate($request, [
'email' => 'required|email', 'password' => 'required',
]);
$credentials = $this->getCredentials($request);
// This section is the only change
if (Auth::validate($credentials)) {
$user = Auth::getLastAttempted();
if ($user->active) {
Auth::login($user, $request->has('remember'));
return redirect()->intended($this->redirectPath());
} else {
return redirect($this->loginPath) // Change this to redirect elsewhere
->withInput($request->only('email', 'remember'))
->withErrors([
'active' => 'You must be active to login.'
]);
}
}
return redirect($this->loginPath)
->withInput($request->only('email', 'remember'))
->withErrors([
'email' => $this->getFailedLoginMessage(),
]);
}
Then login.blade.php should be updated to show the new error #if ($errors->has('active'))
Thank you guys for help!