PHP Tutorial Laravel 4 Framework (Authentication) - Creating User Account II

Laravel 4

1. Installing on Ubuntu - local
2. Installing on a Shared host
3. Installing on Windows
4. Creating users table
5. Home page with controller and blade
6. Blade Templating
7. Database connection and sending emails
8. Creating user account I - GET
9. Creating user account II - POST
10. Creating user account III - Error checking & redirecting input
11. Creating user account IV - User::create()
12. Activating user account I - Mail::send()
13. Activating user account II - Update user's status
14. User account sign-in I - Route and link
15. User account sign-in II - Validation
16. User account sign-in III - Login Authentication
17. Singing out
18. Remember the user
19. Changing Password I
20. Changing Password II
21. Recovering forgotten password I
22. Recovering forgotten password II
23. User Profile
24. Database Migration using artisan

This tutorial is the continuation from Creating user account I.

We can determining if a user is authenticated by using Auth::check():

if (Auth::check())
{
    // The user is logged in...
}

Let's open navigation.blade.php, and put lines of code for checking if the use is logged in or not:

<nav>
	<ul>
		<li> <a href="{{ URL::route('home') }}">Home sweet home!! Naviation</a></li>

		@if(Auth::check())

		@else
			<li><a href="{{ URL::route('account-create') }}">Create an account</a></li>
		@endif
	</ul>
</nav>

If we hit the root:

When we click the link for 'Create an account', we get:

We may want to use template (create.blade.php):

@extends('layout.main')

@section('content')
	Create an account by template
@stop

Then, if we hit the 'Create an account' link from the root page, we get:

Now, it's time for post. We want to get a form when we click the link for 'Create an account':

1. routes.php:

   <?php
   
   Route::get('/', 
   	  array('as' => 'home', 
   	        'uses' => 'HomeController@home'
   ));
   
   
   /* Unauthenticated group */
   Route::group(array('before' => 'guest'), function() {
   
   	/* CSRF protection */
   	Route::group(array('before' => 'csrf'), function() {
   		/* Create an account (POST) */
   		Route::post('/account/create', 
   			array('as' => 'account-create-post',
   				'uses' => 'AccountController@postCreate'
   		));
   	});
   
   	/* Create an account (GET) */
   	Route::get('/account/create', 
   		array('as' => 'account-create',
   			'uses' => 'AccountController@getCreate'
   	));
   	 
   });
   

2. AccountController.php:

   <?php
   
   class AccountController extends BaseController {
   
   	/* Viewing the form */
   	public function getCreate() {
   		return View::make('account.create');
   	}
   
   	/* Submitting the form */
   	public function postCreate() {
   		return "from AccountController.postCreate()";
   	}
   }
   

3. create.blade.php:

   @extends('layout.main')
   
   @section('content')
   	<form action="{{ URL::route('account-create-post') }}" method="post">
   			<input type="submit" value="Create account">
   			{{ Form::token() }}
   	</form>
   @stop
   

When we hit the 'Create an account', we get:

Note that the token has been generated for us by the form helper.

We get a page for creating an account when we click the button:

Laravel 4

1. Installing on Ubuntu - local
2. Installing on a Shared host
3. Installing on Windows
4. Creating users table
5. Home page with controller and blade
6. Blade Templating
7. Database connection and sending emails
8. Creating user account I - GET
9. Creating user account II - POST
10. Creating user account III - Error checking & redirecting input
11. Creating user account IV - User::create()
12. Activating user account I - Mail::send()
13. Activating user account II - Update user's status
14. User account sign-in I - Route and link
15. User account sign-in II - Validation
16. User account sign-in III - Login Authentication
17. Singing out
18. Remember the user
19. Changing Password I
20. Changing Password II
21. Recovering forgotten password I
22. Recovering forgotten password II
23. User Profile
24. Database Migration using artisan