Auto Login After Registration

have you checked the LoginController ? http/controllers/auth/Logincontroller

use AuthenticatesUsers;

/**
 * Where to redirect users after login.
 *
 * @var string
 */
protected $redirectTo = 'yournamehere';

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply!

I've got it to redirect to the page I want it to go to... but it shows the login form rather than what they would see if they were logged in. What I want is after the user has registered that they don't need to enter their username and password again if that makes sense!

ok so it never shows them the form , when returning to site after logging in the first time?

Sorry, I don't understand!

What the user goes through now when they register is:

Registration Page -> Login Page -> Dashboard

What I want is:

Registration Page -> Dashboard

The site physically redirects the user to the dashboard upon registering correctly, but because the user is not authenticated it's still showing the login page rather than the dashboard.

http://laravel.io/forum/04-24-2014-how-to-login-users-immediately-after-registration?page=1

Thanks - I had come across that before but couldn't get it to work!

I edited my RegisterController create() method to:

    protected function create(array $data)
    {
        
        $user = User::create([
            'name'      => $data['name'],
            'email'     => $data['email'],
        'role'      => 0,
            'password'  => bcrypt($data['password']),
        ]);

        if (Auth::attempt(['email' => $data['email'], 'password' => $data['password']])) {
            return $user;
        }
    }

But was getting the error:

Type error: Argument 1 passed to Illuminate\Auth\SessionGuard::login() must implement interface Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable, null given, called in /vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Auth/RegistersUsers.php 

...so it looks like the Auth::attempt is failing so it's returning null rather than the $user.

dd(Auth::attempt(['email' => $data['email'], 'password' => $data['password']])) returns false. Any idea why that might be when it's just created the user with those credentials?!

Auth::loginUsingId($user->id);

fails too! This is driving me mad!

dd([$user->id, Auth::loginUsingId($user->id)]);

returns:

array:2 [▼
  0 => 48
  1 => false
]

This is how the auto-login happens in 5.3 from the RegistersUsers trait in the RegisterController:

public function register(Request $request)
    {
        $this->validator($request->all())->validate();

        event(new Registered($user = $this->create($request->all())));

        $this->guard()->login($user);

        return $this->registered($request, $user)
            ?: redirect($this->redirectPath());
    }

Are you sure you have this? Copy that into your register controller and override it.

You can also add the registered method to your registercontroller too.

protected function registered(Request $request, $user)
    {
        return Auth::loginUsingId($user->id);
    }

Thanks, I've tried copying and pasting the above in... It complained about not being able to find Registered so I added

use Illuminate\Auth\Events\Registered;

but it still didn't work....

Then it hit me that I had got a scope on the user model... deleted that and hey presto it worked! Sorry for wasting your time - I'm an idiot!

Trial & error :) your by no means an idiot bud ????

You're not an idiot haha. Sometimes with brand new projects, things don't work out of the box no matter what you try.

Next time, if you didn't modify anything and it's a brand new project and you can't figure out why it's not working, just make a new project :)

Haha thanks to the both of you :) Will do

you should use an if statement to ensure the user was created successfully before logging them in. did you get it to work?