I'm using Laravel 5.3
and I'm trying to get the authenticated user's id
in the constructor
method so I can filter the user by assigned company as follows:
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\DispatchesJobs;
use Illuminate\Routing\Controller as BaseController;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Validation\ValidatesRequests;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\Access\AuthorizesRequests;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\View;
use App\Models\User;
use App\Models\Company;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
class Controller extends BaseController
{
use AuthorizesRequests, DispatchesJobs, ValidatesRequests ;
public $user;
public $company;
public function __construct()
{
$companies = Company::pluck('name', 'id');
$companies->prepend('Please select');
view()->share('companies', $companies);
$this->user = User::with('profile')->where('id', \Auth::id())->first();
if(isset($this->user->company_id)){
$this->company = Company::find($this->user->company_id);
if (!isset($this->company)) {
$this->company = new Company();
}
view()->share('company', $this->company);
view()->share('user', $this->user);
}
}
However this doesn't return the user id
. I've even tried Auth::check()
and it doesn't work.
If I move the Auth::check()
out of the __construct()
method then this works as follows:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class HomeController extends Controller
{
/**
* Create a new controller instance.
*
* @return void
*/
public function __construct()
{
parent::__construct();
$this->middleware('auth');
}
/**
* Show the application dashboard.
*
* @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
*/
public function index()
{
dd(\Auth::check());
return view('home');
}
}
However this fails if I put this in the construct method in the HomeController
too!
Any ideas why this is failing?
you can't access the session or authenticated user in your controller's constructor because the middleware has not run yet.
As an alternative, you may define a Closure based middleware directly in your controller's constructor. Before using this feature, make sure that your application is running Laravel 5.3.4 or above:
class ProjectController extends Controller
{
/**
* All of the current user's projects.
*/
protected $projects;
/**
* Create a new controller instance.
*
* @return void
*/
public function __construct()
{
$this->middleware(function ($request, $next) {
$this->projects = Auth::user()->projects;
return $next($request);
});
}
}