Laravel 5.2 How to change redirects of RedirectIfAuthenticated depending on Controller?

Question

I'm wondering if it is possible to make the authentication redirect differently for each of my controllers? Currently, everything redirects to /home. This is intended for my HomeController. But for ClientController, I want it to redirect to /client (if authenticated) and not /home. Do I have to make a new middleware for each of my controllers or is there a way to accomplish this by reusing auth?

RedirectIfAuthenticated.php

if (Auth::guard($guard)->check()) {
    return redirect('/home'); //anyway to change this to /client if coming from ClientController?
}

I have this on my ClientController.php

public function __construct()
{
    $this->middleware('auth');
}

Thanks in advance! Fairly new to Laravel and Middleware.

Answer 1

Never mind, I was able to make things work with proper routing. Added ClientController under web middle which is responsible for all of the authentication.

Route::group(['middleware' => ['web']], function () {
    Route::resource('client', 'ClientController');
}

And in ClientController.php, add to use auth middleware.

public function __construct()
{
    $this->middleware('auth');
}

public function index()
{
    return view('client');
}

Answer 2

Just use this in User model:

protected $redirectTo = '/client';

You can also achieve this by changing Laravel's core file. If you are using Laravel 5.2 go to project_folder\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\RedirectsUsers.php

You can find the following code:

public function redirectPath()
{
    if (property_exists($this, 'redirectPath')) {
        return $this->redirectPath;
    }

    return property_exists($this, 'redirectTo') ? $this->redirectTo : '/home'; //Change the route in this line
}

Now, change /home to /client. However, I recommend not to change core files. You can use the first one.