Getting user data with Laravel Sanctum

Question

I was using Laravel's built-in api token authentication before but I wanted to provide multiple api tokens for different clients and with Laravel 7.x, I'm trying to migrate to Laravel Sanctum.

API seems authenticates user without any problem but when I try to get user data with Auth::user();, it returns null. Also  Auth::guard('api')->user(); returns null too.

What should I use as Auth guard? Or is it correct way to get user data based on provided token?

Thank you very much....

Answer 1

First, route through the sanctum auth middleware.

Route::get('/somepage', 'SomeController@MyMethod')->middleware('auth:sanctum');

Then, get the user.

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class AuthController extends Controller
{
    public function MyMethod(Request $request) {
        return $request->user();
    }
}

auth()->user() is a global helper, Auth::user() is a support facade, and $request->user() uses http. You can use any of them. For a quick test, try

Route::get('/test', function() {
    return auth()->user();
})->middleware('auth:sanctum');

Be sure to send your token in a header like so:

Authorization: Bearer UserTokenHere

Answer 2

auth('sanctum')->user()->id
auth('sanctum')->check()

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without middleware, you could use these.