Is it possible to force logout using user id in Laravel?

Question

I'm wondering if there is any simple way to force logout different users by their id? For example I need to block currently lodged in user so I want to log out him after I set his status to block.

P.S. I cant use middleware for this to check on each request.

Answer 1

I do this inside the Authenticate middleware

if (!Auth::user()->isActive()) {
    Auth::logout();

    return Redirect::home();
}

The user is already loaded there, no additional database query is needed here.

I don't think that's a performance issue, you just do a little if statement and you do it only if the user needs to be authenticated.