Problem authenticating with username and password in Laravel 8

Question

I recently started using Laravel 8 and I am trying to log in using username and email together but I do not know how to do this. In Laravel 7 I could use...

protected function credentials(Request $request)
{
    $field = filter_var($request->get($this->username()), FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL)
        ? $this->username()
        : 'username';
    
    return [
        $field => $request->get($this->username()),
        'password' => $request->password,
    ];
}

How can I log in using both username and password in Laravel 8 since there is no LoginController inside the Auth folder anymore?

side note: in 7 that controller isn't there by default either, you needed laravel/ui in 7 ... looks like for 8 they are pushing laravel/jetstream for the authentication scaffolding — lagbox, Sep 09 '20 at 01:46

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 07 '20 at 04:01

Solution working for Laravel-Jetstream

You can authenticate using username or email following this steps.

1. Confirm login input field name (Let name is identity)

2. Change config/fortify.php

'username' => 'email' to  'username' => 'identity'

3. Added following authentication code in your app/Providers/FortifyServiceProvider.php file inside boot method

Fortify::authenticateUsing(function (LoginRequest $request) {
            $user = User::where('email', $request->identity)
                ->orWhere('username', $request->identity)->first();

            if (
                $user &&
                \Hash::check($request->password, $user->password)
            ) {
                return $user;
            }
        });

[Note] Please use those classes

use Laravel\Fortify\Http\Requests\LoginRequest;
use App\Models\User;

#For register username

1. Add input in your register.blade.php

<div class="mt-4">
            <x-jet-label for="username" value="{{ __('User Name') }}" />
            <x-jet-input id="username" class="block mt-1 w-full" type="text" name="username" :value="old('username')" required autofocus autocomplete="username" />
</div>

2. Add username in User model $fillable array list.

3. Finally change in app/Actions/Fortify/CreateNewUser.php file

Validator::make($input, [
            ..........
            'username' => ['required', 'string', 'max:255', 'unique:users'],
            .........
        ])->validate();

        return User::create([
           .......
            'username' => $input['username'],
            .....
        ]);
    }

Lets enjoy the authentication.

Works great for registration! But can you please also tell, how it works for the login as well? — treesoft, Nov 14 '20 at 13:49
@treesoft already described here please follow the "You can authenticate using username or email following this steps" part. — Md Nasir Fardoush, Nov 16 '20 at 04:13

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 05 '22 at 06:18

This is my code you can log in with your username or email and you can do it with regular expressions in the validation part.

public function login() {
    $credentials = $this->validate();
    
    if(auth()->attempt(array('email' => $this->email, 'password' => $this->password), $this->remember_me) ||
         auth()->attempt(array('username' => $this->email, 'password' => $this->password), $this->remember_me)) {
        $user = User::where(["email" => $this->email])
            ->orWhere(["username" => $this->email])
        ->first();
        auth()->login($user, $this->remember_me);
        return redirect()->intended('/dashboard');        
    }
    else{
        return $this->addError('email', trans('auth.failed')); 
    }
}

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 17 '20 at 17:03

Laravel Jetstream (available for Laravel 8) replaces Laravel Authentication UI which was available for previous Laravel versions. This means, for the authentication functionality you want, you have to install and use Jetstream. To install Jetstream with composer, run the following command

composer require laravel/jetstream
php artisan jetstream:install

Then, depending on whether you want to use Livewire or Inertia, run one of the following two commands:

php artisan jetstream:install livewire

or

php artisan jetstream:install inertia

After that, then run

npm install && npm run dev
php artisan migrate

Jetstream is ready for use.

Here is Jetstream documentation and a quick tutorial.

Problem authenticating with username and password in Laravel 8

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