Laravel Starter - PHP User Group (Myanmar)

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Finally, add the following line to your routes.php file:
Route::get('logout', 'auth@logout');
That's all! Now, when we go to http://myfirst.dev/logout, we'll be logged out and
redirected to our site's index page.
So, how can we find out if someone is logged in? The Eloquent and Fluent Auth drivers contain
two methods for handling this, check() and guest(). Let's look at each of these in turn:
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Auth::check() returns true if a user is currently logged in, and false otherwise.
Auth::guest() is the opposite of Auth::check(). It returns false if a user is
logged in, and true otherwise.
Once you've made sure that a user is logged in, you can use Auth::user() to return the user
record. If you're using the Fluent driver, Auth::user() will return a dumb object containing
the appropriate values from the users table. If you're using the Eloquent driver, Auth::user()
will return an instance of your User model. This is very powerful. Let's look at an example:
@if(Auth::check())
You're logged in as {{ Auth::user()->real_name
}}
@endif
As you've seen, Laravel's authentication system is driver-based. In this example, we used the
Eloquent driver. However, you also have the ability to create custom authentication drivers. This
gives you the power to authenticate users with different means and return different types of
data with the standard Auth class' API. Covering the development of custom drivers is outside
the scope of this document. However, it's simple and powerful. Be sure to look into the Laravel
documentation for more information.
3 – Filters
Now that we have a user administration site with authentication, we need to restrict some pages
on our site to users who have successfully authenticated. We'll do that by using filters.
Filters are functions that can be run before or after routed code. A filter that runs before the
routed code is called a before filter. Similarly well-named is the after filter, which runs after
routed code.
Filters are often used for enforcing authentication. We can create a filter that detects if a user
is not logged in, then redirect him/her to the login form. Actually, we don't need to make this
filter at all. Laravel ships with this filter already written. You can find it in your application/
routes.php.
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