Setting session data and conditional redirect on login

You can override the redirectPath() function and check the authenticated user there.

You can override the authenticated trait in your AuthController.php. Add something like this. This is lifted straight from one of my projects. You can see how the user object is passed through. You can redirect wherever you want after authentication.

    public function authenticated($request, $user )
    {
        session(['customerId' => $user->customer_id]);
        return redirect()->intended($this->redirectPath());
    }

I did this ... is it correct practice?

protected function authenticated($user){
        Session::put('role_id', Auth::user()->role_id);
        if(Session::get('role_id') == '1') {
            return redirect('/page1');
        }
            return redirect('/page2');
    }

for some reason I couldn't get a value $user->user_id, I could only get $user->email and $user->password ... was there a better way to get the value of role_id ?

you need to accept $request and $user as per my example.

you should then be able to just use $user->role_id

OK, that works, but just for my education, is the way that I did it (Auth::user()->role_id), previously, wrong? Why?

you can refer to http://www.codemold.com/search/laravel%20%20session.html