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SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'email' in 'where clause' (SQL: select count(*) as aggregate from `users` where `email` = [email protected])

What I want to do is change where laravel looks for the email and password for registration. Instead of having it in the users table, I have it in a logins table. But even when I change the code in the config/auth.php file it still gives me an error as below:

SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'email' in 'where clause' (SQL: select count(*) as aggregate from users where email = [email protected])

logins migration file:

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration; use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint; use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

class CreateLoginsTable extends Migration { /** * Run the migrations. * * @return void */ public function up() { Schema::create('logins', function (Blueprint $table) { $table->bigIncrements('id'); $table->string('email'); $table->string('password'); $table->timestamps(); }); }

/**
 * Reverse the migrations.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function down()
{
    Schema::dropIfExists('logins');
}

}

users migration file:

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration; use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint; use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

class CreateUsersTable extends Migration { /** * Run the migrations. * * @return void */ public function up() { Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) { $table->engine = 'InnoDB'; $table->bigIncrements('id'); $table->string('name', 45); $table->mediumText('address'); $table->string('irdNum'); $table->integer('phone'); $table->bigInteger('loginID')->unsigned()->index()->nullable(); $table->timestamps(); });

    Schema::table('users', function($table) {
        $table->foreign('loginID')->references('id')->on('logins')
            ->onUpdate('cascade')->onDelete('cascade');
    });

}

/**
 * Reverse the migrations.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function down()
{
    Schema::dropIfExists('users');
}

}

Login model

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory; use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Login extends Model { use HasFactory;

/**
 * The attributes that are mass assignable.
 *
 * @var array
 */
protected $fillable = [
    'email',
    'password'
];

/**
 * The attributes that should be hidden for arrays.
 *
  • @var array */ protected $hidden = [ 'password', 'remember_token', ]; }

User model

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail; use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory; use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable; use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;

class User extends Authenticatable { use HasFactory, Notifiable;

/**
 * The attributes that are mass assignable.
 *
 * @var array
 */
protected $fillable = [
    'name',
    'address',
    'irdNum',
    'phone',
    'logInID'
];

} RegisteredUserController.php

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Auth;

use App\Http\Controllers\Controller; use App\Models\Login; use App\Providers\RouteServiceProvider; use Illuminate\Auth\Events\Registered; use Illuminate\Http\Request; use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth; use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash; use Illuminate\Validation\Rules;

class RegisteredUserController extends Controller { /** * Display the registration view. * * @return \Illuminate\View\View */ public function create() { return view('auth.register'); }

/**
 * Handle an incoming registration request.
 *
 * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
 * @return \Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse
 *
 * @throws \Illuminate\Validation\ValidationException
 */
public function store(Request $request)
{
    $request->validate([
        'name' => 'required|string|max:255',
        'address' => 'required|string|max:500',
        'irdNum' => 'required|string|max:12',
        'phone' => 'required|string|max:16',
        'email' => 'required|string|email|max:255|unique:users',
        'password' => ['required', 'confirmed', Rules\Password::defaults()],
    ]);

    $login = Login::create([
        'email' => $request->email,
        'password' => Hash::make($request->password)
    ]);

    $login->save();


    $user = User::create([
        'name' => $request->name,
        'address' => $request->address,
        'irdNum' => $request->irdNum,
        'phone' => $request->phone,
        'loginID' => $login->id
    ]);

    event(new Registered($user));

    Auth::login($user);

    return redirect(RouteServiceProvider::HOME);
}

}

I went to the below file and hanged all occurrences of users to logins

config/auth.php

return [

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Authentication Defaults
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This option controls the default authentication "guard" and password
| reset options for your application. You may change these defaults
| as required, but they're a perfect start for most applications.
|
*/

'defaults' => [
    'guard' => 'web',
    'passwords' => 'logins',
],

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Authentication Guards
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Next, you may define every authentication guard for your application.
| Of course, a great default configuration has been defined for you
| here which uses session storage and the Eloquent user provider.
|
| All authentication drivers have a user provider. This defines how the
| users are actually retrieved out of your database or other storage
| mechanisms used by this application to persist your user's data.
|
| Supported: "session", "token"
|
*/

'guards' => [
    'web' => [
        'driver' => 'session',
        'provider' => 'logins',
    ],

    'api' => [
        'driver' => 'token',
        'provider' => 'logins',
        'hash' => false,
    ],
],

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| User Providers
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| All authentication drivers have a user provider. This defines how the
| users are actually retrieved out of your database or other storage
| mechanisms used by this application to persist your user's data.
|
| If you have multiple user tables or models you may configure multiple
| sources which represent each model / table. These sources may then
| be assigned to any extra authentication guards you have defined.
|
| Supported: "database", "eloquent"
|
*/

'providers' => [
    'logins' => [
        'driver' => 'eloquent',
        'model' => App\Models\Login::class,
    ],

    // 'users' => [
    //     'driver' => 'database',
    //     'table' => 'users',
    // ],
],

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Resetting Passwords
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| You may specify multiple password reset configurations if you have more
| than one user table or model in the application and you want to have
| separate password reset settings based on the specific user types.
|
| The expire time is the number of minutes that the reset token should be
| considered valid. This security feature keeps tokens short-lived so
| they have less time to be guessed. You may change this as needed.
|
*/

'passwords' => [
    'logins' => [
        'provider' => 'logins',
        'table' => 'password_resets',
        'expire' => 60,
        'throttle' => 60,
    ],
],

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Password Confirmation Timeout
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here you may define the amount of seconds before a password confirmation
| times out and the user is prompted to re-enter their password via the
| confirmation screen. By default, the timeout lasts for three hours.
|
*/

'password_timeout' => 10800,

];

As seen in the error, it seems to still be looking at the users table for email. I am not why that is happening as I have set everything that was users to logins

Thank you for any future responses, its much appreciated!

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DaleJV's avatar

Turns out the issue was that in the model one of the fields where "logInID", but in the controller I did "loginID". A simple grammar mistake haha!

Snapey's avatar

But your original error

Unknown column 'email' in 'where clause' (SQL: select count(*) as aggregate from users where email = [email protected]

is for registration where the unique rule is being used in validation and needs to change the table it checks on.

DaleJV's avatar

Oh yes you are right! Sorry about that. I forgot that that was the original fix because after finding that issue I ran into the grammar issue.

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