Laravel 5.1 multiple authentication

Question

How can you authenticate multiple types of users in Laravel 5.1 e.g. Jobseeker, Recruiter, Admin etc.

Some of you have suggested using a single users table to store

Answer 1

As another solution, i can suggest you to use a polymorphic relation between User and Account, like

class User extends Eloquent {

  ...

  public function account() {
    return $this->morphTo();
  }

}

class Account extends Eloquent {

  ...

  public function user() {
    return $this->morphOne(App\User::class, 'account');
  }
}

class JobSeeker extends Account { ... }

class Recruiter extends Account { ... }

For different types of Account, you can use route prefixes and different auth controllers, specially for registration who differs for each account instances :

// Recruiter Authentication routes...
Route::group(['prefix' => 'recruiter'], function() {
  Route::controller('auth', 'Auth\RecruiterAuthController');
});

At last, you can access the authenticated account directly from auth()->user()->account. it will return any instance of Account (Recruiter, Admin, ....)

hope it helps you ;)