Write web services with existing Laravel Controllers

Question

I have a project in Laravel 5.2 and now I have to make the APIs for that. I tried to hit the localhost/myproject/login via postman as a post request with the parameters but it returns me the HTML in return. I have used Laravel's auth scaffolding for the authorization. I am unable to find postLogin function in my project. I have separated the routes but how can I change the existing functions for the API?

Route::group(array('prefix' => 'api/v1'), function()
{
    Route::post('login', 'AuthController@postLogin');
});

Hi I am not sure why you are trying to hit the localhost/myproject/login via postman for user login. I think you should hit the localhost/myproject/api/v1/login for this code snippet. — supernova, Sep 24 '16 at 14:33
okay, but how can I edit the postLogin function to return me the `JSON` ? — baig772, Sep 24 '16 at 14:35
@baig772 can you attach the image of response from the server on postman? — Kenyi Despean, Sep 24 '16 at 14:51

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 24 '16 at 14:41

Here is the postLogin that returns the json rather than the html code.

public function authenticate()
{
    if (Auth::attempt(['email' => $email, 'password' => $password])) {
        // Authentication passed...
        //return redirect()->intended('dashboard');
        return response()->json(['status' => 1]);
    }
}

If you have any trouble, let me know.

Write web services with existing Laravel Controllers

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