Single Session Login in Laravel

Question

I\'m trying to implement a user policy whereby only one user can login at a time. I\'m trying to build this on top of Laravel\'s Auth driver.

I\'ve thought of using

Answer 1

my solution was extended from @Albin N for Laravel 5.* onward

add "last_session" column into table users

make sure you allow this column is fill-able by adding "last_session" into $fillable on User model (User.php)

protected $fillable = [
    'name', 'email', 'password','last_session'
];

add authenticated() function into App/Http/Controllers/Auth/LoginController.php if you can't find it just make sure you have run php artisan make:auth

protected function authenticated()
{
    // Update last_session after logged-in
    User::find(Auth::id())->update(['last_session'=>Session::getId()]);
}

create new middleware class php artisan make:middleware SingleSession

if(Auth::check())
{
   // If current session id is not same with last_session column
   if(Auth::user()->last_session != Session::getId())
   {
      // do logout
      Auth::logout();

      // Redirecto login page
     return Redirect::to('login');
   }
}

finally call you SingleSession middleware class in kernel.php

protected $middlewareGroups = [
    'web' => [
        \App\Http\Middleware\SingleSession::class,
    ],

    'api' => [
        'throttle:60,1',
        'bindings',
    ],
];

it will check every time before routes are being executed that's it! happy coding..!