Laravel middleware logout

Question

I want to make a middleware in my Laravel 9 project where if the user is inactive, they automatically get logged out. In my middleware class, like the following.

public function handle(Request $request, Closure $next)
{
    if (Auth::user()->is_active != 1) {
        return Auth::logout();
    }

    return $next($request);
}

But when I try it, I get an error like this.

Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

The logout function will not return the object, and you can't redirect it from middleware.

What you can do is

public function handle(Request $request, Closure $next)
{
    if (Auth::check() && Auth::user()->is_active != 1) {
        Auth::logout();
        return redirect('/login'); # add you login route
    }
    return $next($request);
}