Laravel - force logout of specific user by user id

I think the easiest way is to add a column to your users table, for example active and then create a middleware that checks if the user account is active. If it's not active, you log them out and/or redirect them to a page with more info.

I did this in one of my projects, where I would redirect inactive users to a suspended page with some basic information and also contact information.

Sound great! I will try.. Thank you :)

@SaeedPrez adding column active in user table cannot logout user session right?

Not by itself, but if you have a middleware that is checking for it, then yes you can.

Something like

if (!Auth::user()->isActive()) {
    Auth::logout();
}

or

if (Auth::id() == 1) {
    Auth::logout();
    return redirect('/somewhere/else');
}

@Cronix In my case was i have a Connection Monitoring module to list all the login users, if ever the admin wish to disconnect the user I passed the id through AJAX into my controller then i will logout the specific user... But i will try your logic if it's workings...Thanks.

@Cronix i tried the two man and it will just logging out the current user and not the specific user.

Yes, Auth::user() is the current user. I was saying to put it in middleware. Then, when the user with id of 1 (per my example) accesses the app and they are logged in, it will log them out.

https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/middleware

So if you added an is_active column on your users table, the admin can send an ajax request and set that column to a 0 for that user. Then when the user access any route that is using your custom middleware, it would log them out if you had this for your middleware:

if ( ! Auth::user()->is_active) {
    Auth::logout();
    redirect('/somewhere/else');
}