Laravel Auth::attempt failing each time - php

Question

I have created a test user on my laravel app. The details are
user: joe#gmail.com pass: 123456
When I go through the registration process everything works as expected and an entry is made into the users table of the database
Once this is finished I redirect the user to the dashboard.
public function postCreate(){
//Rules
$rules = array(
'fname'=>'required|alpha|min:2',
'lname'=>'required|alpha|min:2',
'email'=>'required|email|unique:users',
'password'=>'required|alpha_num|between:6,12|confirmed',
'password_confirmation'=>'required|alpha_num|between:6,12'
);
$validator = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules);
if($validator->passes()){
//Save in DB - Success
$user = new User;
$user->fname = Input::get('fname'); //Get the details of form
$user->lname = Input::get('lname');
$user->email = Input::get('email');
$user->password = Hash::make(Input::get('password'));//Encrypt the password
$user->save();
return Redirect::to('/books')->with('Thank you for Registering!');
}else{
//Display error - Failed
return Redirect::to('/')->with('message', 'The Following Errors occurred')->withErrors($validator)->withInput();
}
}
I then navigate back to the landing page and attempt to log in using the credentials above and I keep getting told that Auth::attempt() is failing hence my user cannot log into the application.
public function login(){
if(Auth::attempt(array('email'=>Input::get('email'), 'password'=>Input::get('password')))){
//Login Success
echo "Success"; die();
return Redirect::to('/books');
}else{
//Login failed
echo "Fail"; die();
return Redirect::to('/')->with('message', 'Your username/password combination was incorrect')->withInput();
}
}
Does anyone know why this is happening? This is the Schema for my users table:
Schema::create('users', function($table){
$table->increments('id');
$table->integer('type')->unsigned();
$table->string('fname', 255);
$table->string('lname', 255);
$table->string('email')->unique();
$table->string('password', 60);
$table->string('school', 255);
$table->string('address_1', 255);
$table->string('address_2', 255);
$table->string('address_3', 255);
$table->string('address_4', 255);
$table->string('remember_token', 100);
$table->timestamps();
});
Any help is much appreciated.
'View for Login':
<div class="page-header">
<h1>Home page</h1>
</div>
<!-- Register Form -->
<form action="{{ action('UsersController#postCreate') }}" method="post" role="form">
<h2 class="form-signup-heading">Register</h2>
<!-- Display Errors -->
<ul>
#foreach($errors->all() as $error)
<li>{{ $error }}</li>
#endforeach
</ul>
<!-- First Name -->
<div class="form-group">
<label>First Name</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="fname" />
</div>
<!-- Last Name -->
<div class="form-group">
<label>Last Name</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="lname" />
</div>
<!-- Email -->
<div class="form-group">
<label>Email</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="email" />
</div>
<!-- Password-->
<div class="form-group">
<label>Password</label>
<input type="password" class="form-control" name="password" />
</div>
<!-- Confirm Password -->
<div class="form-group">
<label>Confirm Password</label>
<input type="password" class="form-control" name="password_confirmation" />
</div>
<input type="submit" value="Register" class="btn btn-primary"/>
</form>
<!-- Login Form -->
<form action="{{ action('UsersController#login') }}" method="post" role="form">
<h2 class="form-signup-heading">Login</h2>
<!-- Email -->
<div class="form-group">
<label>Email</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="email" />
</div>
<!-- Password-->
<div class="form-group">
<label>Password</label>
<input type="password" class="form-control" name="password" />
</div>
<input type="submit" value="Login" class="btn btn-primary"/>
</form>

Answer 1

Can you run this function below - and tell me where the error occurs? It will diagnose the problem:
public function testLogin()
{
$user = new User;
$user->fname = 'joe';
$user->lname = 'joe';
$user->email = 'joe#gmail.com';
$user->password = Hash::make('123456');
if ( ! ($user->save()))
{
dd('user is not being saved to database properly - this is the problem');
}
if ( ! (Hash::check('123456', Hash::make('123456'))))
{
dd('hashing of password is not working correctly - this is the problem');
}
if ( ! (Auth::attempt(array('email' => 'joe#gmail.com', 'password' => '123456'))))
{
dd('storage of user password is not working correctly - this is the problem');
}
else
{
dd('everything is working when the correct data is supplied - so the problem is related to your forms and the data being passed to the function');
}
}
Edit: one thought - are you sure the user is being correctly saved in the database? Have you tried to 'empty/delete' your database and try your code again? In your current code, it will fail if you keep registering with joe#gmail.com - because it is unique. But you dont catch the error anywhere. So empty the database and try again...
Edit 2: I found another question you posted with the same problem - and in there you mentioned that the following code is your user model?
use Illuminate\Auth\UserTrait;
use Illuminate\Auth\UserInterface;
use Illuminate\Auth\Reminders\RemindableTrait;
use Illuminate\Auth\Reminders\RemindableInterface;
class User extends Eloquent implements UserInterface, RemindableInterface {
use UserTrait, RemindableTrait;
/**
* The database table used by the model.
*
* #var string
*/
protected $table = 'users';
/**
* The attributes excluded from the model's JSON form.
*
* #var array
*/
protected $hidden = array('password');
public function getAuthIdentifier() {
}
public function getAuthPassword() {
}
public function getRememberToken() {
}
public function getRememberTokenName() {
}
public function getReminderEmail() {
}
public function setRememberToken($value) {
}
}
Is that EXACTLY your current user model? Because if so - it is wrong - none of those functions should be blank.
This is what a CORRECT user model should look like for Laravel 4.2
use Illuminate\Auth\UserTrait;
use Illuminate\Auth\UserInterface;
use Illuminate\Auth\Reminders\RemindableTrait;
use Illuminate\Auth\Reminders\RemindableInterface;
class User extends Eloquent implements UserInterface, RemindableInterface {
use UserTrait, RemindableTrait;
/**
* The database table used by the model.
*
* #var string
*/
protected $table = 'users';
/**
* The attributes excluded from the model's JSON form.
*
* #var array
*/
protected $hidden = array('password', 'remember_token');
}

Answer 2

You would make sure about:
your model:
mine looks like:
use Illuminate\Auth\UserInterface;
use Illuminate\Auth\Reminders\RemindableInterface;
class User extends Eloquent implements UserInterface, RemindableInterface {
protected $table = 'users';
protected $hidden = array('password');
public function getAuthIdentifier()
{
Return $this->getKey ();
}
public function getAuthPassword()
{
return $this->password;
}
}
make sure your app/config/auth.php is configured correctly
make sure app/config/app.php has service provider
'Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider',
Make sure your controller class has auth. before writing class you have used Auth (I mean include Auth class)
That all could make Auth doesn't work well

Answer 3

With password hashing enabled, the User model must override these methods:
public function getAuthIdentifierName()
{
return 'email';
}
public function getAuthIdentifier()
{
return request()->get('email');
}
public function getAuthPassword()
{
return Hash::make(request()->get('password'));
}

Answer 4

What is the value for strlen(Hash::make(Input::get('password')))? If it is greater than 60, then this would cause the authentication to fail each time, as the stored password is not the full hash.

Answer 5

Good day, here is what I discovered when I encountered the same error: A simple string compare will reveal that the two hashing methods produce two different hashed values.
echo strcmp(Hash::make('password'),bcrypt('password'));
My assumption is that Auth::attempt([]) uses bcrypt() to hash out passwords which produces a different value to what you used Hash:make().