Authentication

Authentication

• Introduction
  • Database Considerations
• Authentication Quickstart
  • Routing
  • Views
  • Authenticating
  • Retrieving The Authenticated User
  • Protecting Routes
  • Login Throttling
• Manually Authenticating Users
  • Remembering Users
  • Other Authentication Methods
• HTTP Basic Authentication
  • Stateless HTTP Basic Authentication
• Social Authentication
• Adding Custom Guards
• Adding Custom User Providers
  • The User Provider Contract
  • The Authenticatable Contract
• Events

Introduction

Want to get started fast? Just run php artisan make:auth and php artisan migrate in a fresh Laravel application. Then, navigate your browser to http://your-app.dev/register or any other URL that is assigned to your application. These two commands will take care of scaffolding your entire authentication system!

Laravel makes implementing authentication very simple. In fact, almost everything is configured for you out of the box. The authentication configuration file is located at config/auth.php, which contains several well documented options for tweaking the behavior of the authentication services.

At its core, Laravel's authentication facilities are made up of "guards" and "providers". Guards define how users are authenticated for each request. For example, Laravel ships with a session guard which maintains state using session storage and cookies.

Providers define how users are retrieved from your persistent storage. Laravel ships with support for retrieving users using Eloquent and the database query builder. However, you are free to define additional providers as needed for your application.

Don't worry if this all sounds confusing now! Many applications will never need to modify the default authentication configuration.