overridden authenticated method in Login Controller doesn't work

Question

I\'m trying to override the authenticated method in the Login Controller but somehow it isn\'t working. I just tried to simply dd(); but still it doesn\'t work.

Below is

Answer 1

That's because you are overwriting the login function, hence the authenticated function is never called.

If you take a look at the trait:

public function login(Request $request)
{
    $this->validateLogin($request);

    // If the class is using the ThrottlesLogins trait, we can automatically throttle
    // the login attempts for this application. We'll key this by the username and
    // the IP address of the client making these requests into this application.
    if ($this->hasTooManyLoginAttempts($request)) {
        $this->fireLockoutEvent($request);

        return $this->sendLockoutResponse($request);
    }

    if ($this->attemptLogin($request)) {
        return $this->sendLoginResponse($request);
    }

    // If the login attempt was unsuccessful we will increment the number of attempts
    // to login and redirect the user back to the login form. Of course, when this
    // user surpasses their maximum number of attempts they will get locked out.
    $this->incrementLoginAttempts($request);

    return $this->sendFailedLoginResponse($request);
}

As you can see, the function sendLoginResponse is the one that is calling the authenticated function.

protected function sendLoginResponse(Request $request)
{
    $request->session()->regenerate();

    $this->clearLoginAttempts($request);

    return $this->authenticated($request, $this->guard()->user())
            ?: redirect()->intended($this->redirectPath());
}

Therefore, in your case, it should be something like this, to regenerate the session and clear the attempts:

return $this->sendLoginResponse($request);

Or if you want to skip directly to the authenticated function:

return $this->authenticated($request, auth()->user());

And your function should look like this:

public function login(Request $request)
{
    if (Auth::attempt(['email' => $request->email, 'password' => $request->password, 'isActive' => '1']))
    {
        // Updated this line
        return $this->sendLoginResponse($request);

        // OR this one
        // return $this->authenticated($request, auth()->user());
    }
    else
    {
        return $this->sendFailedLoginResponse($request, 'auth.failed_status');
    }
}