Why does not work logout route in Laravel?

Question

When I try to logout from admin panel I get error:

MethodNotAllowedHttpException in RouteCollection.php line 218:

But in routing there is route logout:

POST | logout |  App\Http\Controllers\Auth\LoginController@logout | web  

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

You need to do the following steps:

1.- if you're working with a class created by you to the login, specify it in config/auth.php:

'providers' => [
    'users' => [
        'driver' => 'eloquent',
        'model' => App\Administrator::class,
    ],
],

2.- your model must inherit from class Authenticatable:

use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
class Administrator extends Authenticatable{
    #code...
}

3.- add the logout() function on your LoginController, import Auth and Redirect classes

public function logout(){
    Auth::logout();
    return Redirect::to('admin');
}

3.- specify the route that you will use to logout via GET

Route::get('logout','LoginController@logout');

It is all, this should work.

NOTE: Check if you are authenticated by the function Auth::check()

Additional information: When you are working with POST requests, Laravel needs to verify that the request are not a malicious request, for this Laravel needs an ecrypted code, this is called csrf_token, if you don't send this, by default all your requests will be not allowed.