Laravel /w Ionic JWT authentication - php

Question

So I am developing Ionic app with Laravel back-end and using JWT authentication.
My question is...since im using 4 fields when registering a user, and only 2 when logging in (email and pass), I suppose that upon registration the token should be made of only those 2 fields...
This is the working sign up function:
public function signUp()
{
$credentials = Input::all();
if (User::whereEmail($credentials['email'])->first()) {
return Response::json([
'error' => 'User with given e-mail already exists',
], 409);
} elseif (User::wherePhone($credentials['phone'])->first()) {
return Response::json([
'error' => 'User with given phone number already exists',
], 409);
} else {
$user = User::create($credentials);
$token = JWTAuth::fromUser($user);
return Response::json(compact('token'));
}
}
However if I change $credentials = Input::only('email', 'password') the full user won't be created (since there are fields missing).
But even if I leave $credentials as-is, and make combinations like
$token = JWTAuth::fromUser(Input::only('email', 'password')) or parse e-mail and password to JSON, or something similar...I get a "Trying to get a property of non-object" error, or that array is given instead of an object to JWTAuth...

Answer 1

JWTAuth::fromUser(Input::only('email', 'password')) expects a User object.
If you wish to use credentials you can do something like this:
// grab credentials from the request
$credentials = Input::only('email', 'password');
try {
// attempt to verify the credentials and create a token for the user
if (! $token = JWTAuth::attempt($credentials)) {
return Response::json(['error' => 'invalid_credentials'], 401);
}
} catch (JWTException $e) {
// something went wrong whilst attempting to encode the token
return Response::json(['error' => 'could_not_create_token'], 500);
}
// all good so return the token
return Response::json(compact('token'));
https://github.com/tymondesigns/jwt-auth/wiki/Creating-Tokens