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15 */
16 public function boot()
17 {
18 Auth::extend('riak', function($app) {
19 // Return an instance of Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\UserProvider...
20 return new RiakUserProvider($app['riak.connection']);
21 });
22 }
23
24 /**
25 * Register bindings in the container.
26 *
27 * @return void
28 */
29 public function register()
30 {
31 //
32 }
33 }
After you have registered the driver with the extend method, you may switch to the new driver in
your config/auth.php configuration file.
The User Provider Contract
The Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\UserProvider implementations are only responsible for fetching
a Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable implementation out of a persistent storage system,
such as MySQL, Riak, etc. These two interfaces allow the Laravel authentication mechanisms
to continue functioning regardless of how the user data is stored or what type of class is used to
represent it.
Let’s take a look at the Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\UserProvider contract:
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