Laravel Authentication Login, Logout, Register, Forgot Password & Remember Me Functionality

Laravel framework comes with an out of box working authentication functionality for your application that includes Login, Logout, Register, Forgot Password and Remember me functions.

• Laravel Framework
• Laravel Documentation

Requirements:

Working Laravel Framework (I am using Laravel 5.8)
MySQL with database created to be used by your application.
Configuration changes in .env file to set database properties.

Step 1 : Laravel Installation:

Make sure you have a working Laravel application on your machine. Also you have configured your .env file as per the database you are using. Once you have installed laravel. It should have the following folder structure. Laravel application already have some classes that are specific to the Authentication functionality. Controller that are specific to the authentication module are under app > Controllers > Auth

App Service Provider:

To aviod errores, in the file provider make changes to the AppServiceProvider.php:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

Schema::defaultStringLength(191);

However, the changes have been corrected.

Database:

configuring the .env file change the name of the databae to tech_notes or create a new database and continue to follow the steps.

• DB_CONNECTION=mysql
• DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
• DB_PORT=3306
• DB_DATABASE="tech_notes"
• DB_USERNAME="root"
• DB_PASSWORD=""

node Modules:

Node modules was add to the file structure:

npm install

Step 2 : Run make:auth command:

On your project root directory run following command.

php artisan make:auth

Step 3 : Run migrate command:

Next, we need to run the migrate command to create the tables required for authentication. Run the following command on project Root in your terminal.

php artisan migrate

How To:

The step above is already configured for you all you have to do is configure the .env file to your server and database. Howerver, if you want to start a fresh install follow the steps above.