hampel/validate-laravel-auth

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Custom Laravel 4 Auth Validator service provider composer package

1.3.1 2015-05-22 03:02 UTC

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Last update: 2019-08-26 01:12:18 UTC


README

Custom Auth Validators for Laravel 4

By Simon Hampel.

Notes

I have decided not to update this package to work with Laravel 5 - this functionality is provided by the built-in Auth Controller and avoids the complexity of trying to authenticate users inside a validation rule.

For more information, have a look at the Laravel 5 trait AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers

:::php
/**
 * Handle a login request to the application.
 *
 * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
 * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
 */
public function postLogin(Request $request)
{
	$this->validate($request, [
		'email' => 'required', 'password' => 'required',
	]);
	$credentials = $request->only('email', 'password');
	if ($this->auth->attempt($credentials, $request->has('remember')))
	{
		return redirect()->intended($this->redirectPath());
	}
	return redirect($this->loginPath())
				->withInput($request->only('email', 'remember'))
				->withErrors([
					'email' => 'These credentials do not match our records.',
				]);
}

This effectively achieves the same result with no coding required by us!

However, I do recognise that there are other uses for the validation library, so if there is a use-case for including auth functionality in the validation library which I haven't considered, please let me know and I'll revisit releasing a L5 version of this package.

Installation

The recommended way of installing Hampel Laravel Auth Validator is through Composer:

Require the package via Composer in your composer.json

:::json
{
    "require": {
        "hampel/validate-laravel-auth": "1.3.*"
    }
}

Run Composer to update the new requirement.

:::bash
$ composer update

The package is built to work with the Laravel 4 Framework.

Open your Laravel config file config/app.php and add the service provider in the $providers array:

:::php
"providers" => array(

    ...

    "Hampel\Validate\LaravelAuth\ValidateServiceProvider"

),

Usage

This package adds an additional validator for Laravel 4 - refer to Laravel Documentation - Validation for general usage instructions.

auth:credential_column1,credential_value1,credential_column2,credential_value2,...__

The field under validation must be a password, which is combined with the supplied credential column names and values and then passed to Auth::validate to check whether they are a valid password/credential combination.

At least two parameters to the auth rule are required (if less than two are provided, the rule will always fail).

  1. __credential_column1__: name of the first credential column field, eg: 'username' ('user_login' in WordPress), or 'email', ('user_email' in WordPress).
  2. __credential_value1__: value of the first credential to locate in the first credential column
  3. __credential_column2__: name of the second credential column
  4. __credential_value2__: value of the second credential
  5. ...

In this way, multiple credentials can be specified to validate a user against (eg locate a user using both username and email).

Example

:::php
$username_field = "user_login";

$username = Input::get('username');
$password = Input::get('password');

$user_table = Config::get('auth.table');

$userdata = array(
	'username' => $username,
	'password' => $password
);

// Declare the rules for the form validation.
$rules = array(
	'username' => array('required', "exists:{$user_table},{$username_field}"),
	'password' => array('required', "auth:{$username_field},{$username}")
);

// Validate the inputs.
$validator = Validator::make($userdata, $rules);

// Check if the form validates with success.
if ($validator->passes())
{
	dd("passes");
}
else
{
	dd("fails");
}