Auth::guest() returns true for both logged in and logged out users

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Are you sure that you are logged in?

try to dump your Auth::user() data with

dd(Auth::user());

And by the way, if you are returning in the if statement you do not need to use else.

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Updated on June 27, 2022

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  • rranj
    rranj over 1 year

    I am new to laravel and so I was trying to create a small project for learning purpose. I have used the inbuilt Auth for login and register. These automatically generated pages work so well, now In this I created a route to resource posts by using controller called postcontroller.

    Now in the postcontroller I check if the user is authorized to return a view: posts else to login page. So to check it I do following

    if (!Auth::guest())
    
    return view('posts');
    
    else
    
    return "......";
    

    Now here the Auth::guest() returns true for both logged in and logged out users.