Can Anyone Explain Laravel 5.2 Multi Auth with Example

Question

I am trying to authenticate users and admin form user table and admin table respectively. I am using the User model as provided by laravel out of the box and created the same for Admin. I have added a guard key and provider key into auth.php.

Guards

'guards' => [
    'user' =>[
        'driver' => 'session',
        'provider' => 'user',
    ],
    'admin' => [
        'driver' => 'session',
        'provider' => 'admin',
    ],
],  

Providers

'providers' => [
    'user' => [
        'driver' => 'eloquent',
        'model' => App\User::class,
    ],
    'admin' => [
        'driver' => 'eloquent',
        'model' => App\Admin::class,
    ]
],

Routes

Route::group(['middleware' => ['web']], function () {
    // Login Routes.   
    Route::get('/admin/login','AdminAuth\AuthController@showLoginForm');
    Route::post('/admin/login','AdminAuth\AuthController@login');
    Route::get('/admin/logout','AdminAuth\AuthController@logout');

    // Registration Routes.
    Route::get('admin/register', 'AdminAuth\AuthController@showRegistrationForm');
    Route::post('admin/register', 'AdminAuth\AuthController@register');

    Route::get('/admin', 'AdminController@index');
});

I have created a directory called AuthAdmin where Laravel's default AuthController.php and PasswordController.php files are present. (Namespace Modified accordingly)

First of all, in Laravel's docs mentioned that how to specify custom guard while authenticating like this which isn't working.

There's another method mentioned in Laravel's docs to use a guard which is not working too.

It would be beneficial if someone could resolve the issues and correct me if I am wrong.

Answer 1

After lots of digging and lots of questions & answers I have finally managed to work Laravel 5.2 Multi Auth with two table, So I'm writing Answer of my own Question.

How to implement Multi Auth in Laravel 5.2

As Mentioned above. Two table admin and users

Laravel 5.2 has a new artisan command.

php artisan make:auth

it will generate basic login/register route, view and controller for user table.

Make a admin table as users table for simplicity.

Controller For Admin
app/Http/Controllers/AdminAuth/AuthController
app/Http/Controllers/AdminAuth/PasswordController
(note: I just copied these files from app/Http/Controllers/Auth/AuthController here)

config/auth.php

//Authenticating guards
'guards' => [
    'user' =>[
        'driver' => 'session',
        'provider' => 'user',
    ],
    'admin' => [
        'driver' => 'session',
        'provider' => 'admin',
    ],
],  

//User Providers
'providers' => [
    'user' => [
        'driver' => 'eloquent',
        'model' => App\User::class,
    ],
    'admin' => [
        'driver' => 'eloquent',
        'model' => App\Admin::class,
    ]
],  

//Resetting Password  
'passwords' => [
    'clients' => [
        'provider' => 'client',
        'email' => 'auth.emails.password',
        'table' => 'password_resets',
        'expire' => 60,
    ],
    'admins' => [
        'provider' => 'admin',
        'email' => 'auth.emails.password',
        'table' => 'password_resets',
        'expire' => 60,
    ],
],  

route.php

Route::group(['middleware' => ['web']], function () {
    //Login Routes...
    Route::get('/admin/login','AdminAuth\AuthController@showLoginForm');
    Route::post('/admin/login','AdminAuth\AuthController@login');
    Route::get('/admin/logout','AdminAuth\AuthController@logout');

    // Registration Routes...
    Route::get('admin/register', 'AdminAuth\AuthController@showRegistrationForm');
    Route::post('admin/register', 'AdminAuth\AuthController@register');

    Route::get('/admin', 'AdminController@index');

});  

AdminAuth/AuthController.php

Add two methods and specify $redirectTo and $guard

protected $redirectTo = '/admin';
protected $guard = 'admin';
public function showLoginForm()
{
    if (view()->exists('auth.authenticate')) {
        return view('auth.authenticate');
    }

    return view('admin.auth.login');
}
public function showRegistrationForm()
{
    return view('admin.auth.register');
}  

it will help you to open another login form for admin

creating a middleware for admin

class RedirectIfNotAdmin
{
/**
 * Handle an incoming request.
 *
 * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
 * @param  \Closure  $next
 * @param  string|null  $guard
 * @return mixed
 */
public function handle($request, Closure $next, $guard = 'admin')
{
    if (!Auth::guard($guard)->check()) {
        return redirect('/');
    }

    return $next($request);
}

}

register middleware in kernel.php

 protected $routeMiddleware = [
    'admin' => \App\Http\Middleware\RedirectIfNotAdmin::class,
];

use this middleware in AdminController e.g.,

Answer 2

In case this helps anyone, and this may just be due to my lack of understanding of middleware, here's what I had to do to get this working (in addition to the steps taken by @imrealashu)...

In route.php:

Route::get('/admin', [
  'middleware' => 'admin',
  'uses' => 'AdminController@index'
]);

This is in the web middleware group. Before this I tried putting it in a separate admin middleware group and even in an auth:admin group but this didn't work, it only worked for me when I specified the middleware as admin on the route itself. I have no idea why this is but I hope it saves others from pulling their hair out like I did.

Answer 3

It's very easy in laravel 5.6. Just go to config/auth.php and add this line in providers array:

'admins' => [
   'driver' => 'database',
   'table' => 'admin_table'
]

Note that we used database for driver not eloquent.

Now add this to guards array:

'admin_guard' => [
   'driver' => 'session',
   'provider' => 'admins'
]

Now we're done! Use this when working with admins table:

Auth::guard('admin_guard')->User();

Cheers.