Laravel 5.1 basic authentication (register) does not work

Question

I'm very new to Laravel and PHP 5.4, coming from CI. Please forgive this stupid question about very basic authentication.

I am beginning by implementing login/registration (authentication), following the docs.

My migration is in place:

Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->increments('id');
    $table->string('email')->unique();
    $table->string('password', 60);
    $table->string('first_name');
    $table->string('last_name');
    $table->rememberToken();
    ...
});

Here's my config\auth.php:

'driver' => 'eloquent',
'model' => App\User::class,
'table' => 'users',
'password' => [
    'email' => 'emails.password',
    'table' => 'password_resets',
    'expire' => 60,
],

app\User.php:

protected $table = 'users';
protected $fillable = ['first_name', 'last_name', 'email', 'password'];
protected $hidden = ['password', 'remember_token'];

app\Http\Controllers\Auth\AuthController.php:

protected function validator(array $data) {
    return Validator::make($data, [
        'email' => 'required|email|max:255|unique:users',
        'password' => 'required|confirmed|min:6',
    ]);
}

protected function create(array $data) {
   return User::create([
        'email' => $data['email'],
        'password' => bcrypt($data['password']),
    ]);
}

public function getLogin() {
    return view('admin/login');
}

public function getRegister() {
    return view('admin/register');
}

app\Http\routes.php:

Route::get('admin/login', 'Auth\AuthController@getLogin');
Route::post('admin/login', 'Auth\AuthController@postLogin');
Route::get('admin/register', 'Auth\AuthController@getRegister');
Route::post('admin/register', 'Auth\AuthController@postRegister');

My views are displaying properly:

resources/views/admin/login.blade.php
resources/views/admin/register.blade.php

with forms:

<form action="/admin/login" method="POST">
<form action="/admin/register" method="POST">

This is as far as I get. The Register form, when submitted, just redirects to itself, no errors. No entries are created in the users database table.

What am I missing?

EDIT

I don't think I need to add a postRegister() because it's already defined in the RegistersUsers trait used by AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers used by AuthController.

Also, not sure if this helps but I have 2 virtual hosts pointing to the same project directory.

Answer 1

It should be definitively a validation error.

Put this code in your register view and try again:

<!--  Error handle -->
        @if($errors->any())
        <div class="row collapse">
            <ul class="alert-box warning radius">
                @foreach($errors->all() as $error)
                    <li> {{ $error }} </li>
                @endforeach
            </ul>
        </div>
        @endif

Answer 2

You should add postRegister to your AuthController:

public function postRegister(Request $request) {
    $this->validate($request, [
        'email' => 'required|email|max:255|unique:users',
        'password' => 'required|confirmed|min:6',
    ]);

    return $this->create($request->input());
}

Also note that the validator function isn't really required. In 5.1, a Controller object has the validate method, which will return failures automatically.

Oh, and you should probably add postLogin, too. I'll leave that as an exercise for you.

Answer 3

With a basic installation, a validation rule is running when registering. With no further error messages, it's a little confusing.

It's the password validation rule in AuthController.php, that wants a password length of minimum 6 characters:

protected function validator(array $data)
{
    return Validator::make($data, [
        'name' => 'required|max:255',
        'email' => 'required|email|max:255|unique:users',
        'password' => 'required|confirmed|min:6',
    ]);
}

So just make sure you enter 6 or more characters :)