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Hi, I have access to a user API, which has a postable function validate($username, $password) which returns a Boolean, I don't have any direct access to any of that API(database etc), it's solely API based. What would be the best method of using Laravel's built in Auth, to authorise a login through that API?
This is all accomplished through Guzzle, I cannot use a locally stored database as syncing over 500 accounts an hour isn't feasible.
if($api->validate($request->input('username', password')) // Create Auth'd Session.
I want to be able to use Laravel's built in Auth system so I can access Auth::user(), etc.
@jwhm If the API just returns a boolean, then how exactly are you expecting to authenticate a user in your application?
If you call Auth::id() after checking credentials, what is that method supposed to return if you don’t get anything from the API except true or false…?
Sorry, my bad. It returns an array, containing their email, and client_id, as well as a success Boolean.
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