Question

I just started learning Laravel framework today.

I would like to check for user’s session globally. I put a filter in the constructor of the base class like below.

class Base_Controller extends Controller {

    public function __construct() {

        parent::__construct();

        $this->filter('before', 'auth')->except(array('login@index'));

    }

}

it works fine except that there is one problem. I would like to ignore the auth filter for the login controller. How do I do that?

I tried

except(array(“login”)), except(array(“login.index)), and except(array(“login@index”)). None of them worked

Answer 1

Using $this->filter() in a controller has a different approach that doing it in the routes.php file. When you use it inside a controller, except() will just accept methods of that controller.

You can solve your problem creating a new controller that extends from Base_Controller like Base_Auth_Controller that checks for the auth filter. You could probably use the Route::filter('before', function(){}); and then just return; if you detect that the controller is ‘Auth’ (tip: Request::route()->controller) but you can’t definitely exclude a controller@action.

Or do something like:

public function __construct() {

    parent::__construct();

    // you should check what exactly returns, I don't remember actually
    if(Request::route()->controller != 'Auth_Controller')
    {
         $this->filter('before', 'auth')->except(array('login@index'));
    }

}