Laravel 5 Auth - What exactly is it? - php

Question

I understand that the auth functions allows a user to login etc, but I wanted a confirmation on what exactly was happening in the background.
My guess is that it's just a cookie that holds the login details, correct?
Or is it only storing the remember_token and then automatically comparing that with what is stored in the users table?
So if I wanted to create an account edit page. Would I have to do anything like comparing the auth id with the users table id that the e-mail matches up with? Or is it handling all that automatically?

Answer 1

Laravel Auth is nothing but its class where already all authentication methods or functions are written in laravel out of box.so you need not required to write all that function which is relating to user login.for example to check user we simply use
Auth::check();
but in laravel auth class they written like this
public function check()
{
return !is_null($this->user());
}
in the same way for login attempt we are passing parameter to attempt method .Here also laravel built in function is there
public function attempt(array $credentials = [], $remember = false, $login = true)
{
$this->fireAttemptEvent($credentials, $remember, $login);
$this->lastAttempted = $user = $this->provider->retrieveByCredentials($credentials);
// If an implementation of UserInterface was returned, we'll ask the provider
// to validate the user against the given credentials, and if they are in
// fact valid we'll log the users into the application and return true.
if ($this->hasValidCredentials($user, $credentials)) {
if ($login) {
$this->login($user, $remember);
}
return true;
}
return false;
}
Here you are passing all credentials in array and remember password and all