PHP Tutorial Laravel 4 Framework (Authentication) - Remember Me

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 Singing out.

Now that a user can sign in and sign out, we want to have our app remember the user's information if the user wants.

In this section, we'll provide a check box so that a user can have a choice for the remember feature.

views/account/signin.blade.php file:

@extends('layout.main')

@section('content')

	<form action="{{ URL::route('account-sign-in-post') }}" method="post">
 
		<div class="field">
			Email: <input type="text" name="email" value="{{ Input::old('email') }}"> 
			@if($errors->has('email'))
				{{ $errors->first('email')}}
			@endif
		</div>

		<div class="field">
			Password: <input type="password" name="password" > 
			@if($errors->has('password'))
				{{ $errors->first('password')}}
			@endif
		</div>

		<div class="field">
			<input type="checkbox" name="remember"  id="remember"> 
			<label for="remember"> 
				Remember me
		</div>
 
		<input type="submit" value="Sign in">
			{{ Form::token() }}

	</form>
@stop

So, how we can make it work?

We will work on the postSignIn() function in AccountController.php file:

public function postSignIn() {
	$validator = Validator::make(Input::all(),
		array(
			'email' 	=> 'required|email',
			'password'	=> 'required'
		)
	);
	if($validator->fails()) {
		// Redirect to the sign in page
		return Redirect::route('account-sign-in')
			->withErrors($validator)
			->withInput();   // redirect the input
	} else {
		$remember = (Input::has('remember')) ? true : false;
		$auth = Auth::attempt(array(
			'email' => Input::get('email'),
			'password' => Input::get('password'),
			'active' => 1
		), $remember);
	}

We can see additional cookies for the session compared with the case when signed in without checking the Remember.

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