Multiple Authentication Example in Laravel 5

To implement the multiple authentication in Laravel you can follow the following steps
1 Create model for Admin
2 Define your guard in config\auth.php
3 Create Route
4 Create View for registration and login
5

Redirect authenticated users
Password Reset

1 Create model Admin

     php artisan make:model Admin -m

This will create the migration file too
You can open the migration file which has the name end with create_admins_table and edit the file with following code

 public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('admins', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->increments('id');
            $table->string('name');
            $table->string('email')->unique();
            $table->string('password');
            $table->rememberToken();
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

Now you can run the migration command to create the admins table in the database

php artisan migrate

Then you have to add some code to Admin.php model. You can copy the code from User.php model

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;

class Admin extends Authenticatable
{
    use Notifiable;

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

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

2 Define the Guard

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

        'api' => [
            'driver' => 'token',
            'provider' => 'users',
        ],

        'admin' => [
            'driver' => 'session',
            'provider' => 'users',
        ]

    ],

I have defined guard name admin in this code
Now you need to create provider for the admin guard

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

        'admins' => [
            'driver' => 'eloquent',
            'model' => App\Admin::class,
        ],

    ],

I have defined the provider admins here

Now you have to tell to Admin model that I am going to use admin guard.
In Admin.php model file you can add the following line protected $guard='admin'

class Admin extends Authenticatable
{
    use Notifiable;

    protected $guard='admin'

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

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

3 Create Route

Now I am going to create route and add middle ware to route

I have created the group route to make it easy

Route::group(['prefix' => 'admin', 'namespace' => 'Admin'], function () {
	Route::get('/', 'AdminController@index')->name("admin.home");
	Route::get('login', 'Auth\AdminLoginController@showLoginForm')->name("admin.login");
	Route::post('login', 'Auth\AdminLoginController@login')->name('admin.login.submit');
	Route::get('logout', 'Auth\AdminLoginController@logout')->name('admin.logout');

	Route::get('password/reset', 'Auth\AdminForgotPasswordController@showResetPasswordForm')->name('admin.password.request');
	Route::post('password/email', 'Auth\AdminForgotPasswordController@sendResetLinkEmail')->name('admin.password.email');
	Route::get('password/reset/{token}', 'Auth\AdminResetPasswordController@showResetForm')->name('admin.password.reset.token');
	Route::post('password/reset', 'Auth\AdminResetPasswordController@reset')->name('admin.password.reset.submit');

});

we have admin home page for logged admin users and we have login and logout pages too

Redirecting authenticated users

When you open the login page once you are authenticated it should redirect to some page
You can change the handle function of the in RedirectIfAuthenticated class App\Http\Middleware

  public function handle($request, Closure $next, $guard = null)
    {
        if (Auth::guard($guard)->check()) {
            if($guard=='admin') return redirect('/admin');
            return redirect('/home');
        }

        //return $next($request);
    }

Password Reset

In password reset process you have two views to deal with
1 email.blade.php
This view has the text field to enter the email address and a button to send password reset link to the given email

2 reset.blade.php
User will receive email to his inbox for password resetting. When user open the URL he can see this view to reset the password

You need to chene the action of the form to

   Forgot Your Password?

 'passwords' => [
        'users' => [
            'provider' => 'users',
            'table' => 'password_resets',
            'expire' => 60,
        ],
        'admins' => [
                    'provider' => 'admins',
                    'table' => 'password_resets',
                    'expire' => 60,
                ],


    ],

protected function broker(){
     return Password::broker('admins');
}

public function sendPasswordResetNotification($token)
{
    $this->notify(new AdminResetPasswordNotification($token));
}

php artisan make:notification AdminResetPasswordNotification

 public function __construct($token)
 {
        $this->token=$token;
 }

  public function toMail($notifiable)
    {
        return (new MailMessage)
                    ->line('You are receiving this email because we received a password reset request for your account.')
                    ->action('Reset Password', url(route("admin.password.reset.token",$this->token)))
                    ->line('If you did not request a password reset, no further action is required.');
    }