login event handling in laravel 5

Question

i am trying to hook to the login even in my L5 app to set last login time and IP address. i can make it work with the following:

Event::listen(\'auth.login\'         


        

Answer 1

EDIT: this only works in 5.0.* and 5.1.*.

For the 5.2.* solution see JuLiAnc response below.

after working with both proposed answers, and some more research i finally figured out how to do this the way i was trying at first.

i ran the following artisan command

$ php artisan handler:event AuthLoginEventHandler

Then i altered the generated class removing the import of the Event class and and imported the user model. I also passed User $user and $remember to the handle method since when the auth.login event is fired, thats what is passed.

now i opened EventServiceProvided.php and modified the $listen array as follows:

protected $listen = [
    'auth.login' => [
        'App\Handlers\Events\AuthLoginEventHandler',
    ],
];

i realized if this doesn't work at first, you may need to

$ php artisan clear-compiled

There we go! we can now respond to the user logging in via the auth.login event using an event handler class!