hampel / validate-laravel-auth
Custom Laravel 4 Auth Validator service provider composer package
Requires
- php: >=5.3.0
- illuminate/auth: ~4.0
- illuminate/container: ~4.0
- illuminate/support: ~4.0
- illuminate/translation: ~4.0
- illuminate/validation: >=4.0.9,~4.0
Requires (Dev)
- mockery/mockery: dev-master@dev
Conflicts
- hampel/validate-laravel: <=1.0.1
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).
- __credential_column1__: name of the first credential column field, eg: 'username' ('user_login' in WordPress), or 'email', ('user_email' in WordPress).
- __credential_value1__: value of the first credential to locate in the first credential column
- __credential_column2__: name of the second credential column
- __credential_value2__: value of the second credential
- ...
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");
}