Laravel 5.3 redirect after authentication

Question

I have a problem with Laravel 5.3 authentication. I want to redirect users after login. If I wanted to redirect all users to same route i know, I can change attribute protected $redirectTo = 'mypath', but I want to redirect users, based on their type so I need custom logic. In the docs it sais, I should make

protected function redirectTo(){
  //my logic goes here
}

but my function keeps getting ignored. In the docs it sais, my function should override $redirectTo attribute, but even if i delete it, it still goes to default route ("/home"). If I change the attribute value it redirects me to correct path, but my function still gets ignored.

https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/authentication#included-authenticating

My Login controller looks like this:

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Auth;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\AuthenticatesUsers;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;

class LoginController extends Controller
{

    use AuthenticatesUsers;

    //protected $redirectTo = '/';
    protected function redirectTo()
    {
        return redirect('admin/home');
    }

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->middleware('guest', ['except' => 'logout']);
    }

}

EDIT: If I name my function authenticated() instead of redirectTo(), it works as planned.

protected function redirectTo()
{
      return redirect('admin/home');
}

Where are you overriding the $redirectTo variable? I don't see anywhere in your code a value assigned to $this->redirectTo — Dragos
– Dragos, Commented Dec 30, 2016 at 12:38
Have you tried returning a string instead of a redirect object? — yivi
– yivi, Commented Dec 30, 2016 at 13:58
@dragos I deleted it. It doesn't make a difference if it is there or not. I edited my answer, so the commented part is $redirectTo variable. — Grof
– Grof, Commented Dec 30, 2016 at 15:25

Leonid Shumakov · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-30 20:14:34Z

1

Laravel uses RedirectUsers::redirectPath() to get redirect path.

It only checks a property redirectTo.

If you want apply custom logic - just overwrite redirectPath() method in your controller.

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Auth;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\AuthenticatesUsers;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;

class LoginController extends Controller
{

    use AuthenticatesUsers;

    //protected $redirectTo = '/';
    public function redirectPath()
    {
        // ...
        // custom logic here 
        // ...

        return '/my/custom/url/here';
    }

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->middleware('guest', ['except' => 'logout']);
    }

}

The same approach will work for RegisterController and ResetPasswordController.

edited Dec 30, 2016 at 20:14

answered Dec 30, 2016 at 19:46

Leonid Shumakov

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Grof Over a year ago

Thank you very much for your help :)

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