Laravel 5 check whether a user is logged in

Question

I am new to Laravel 5 and trying to understand its Auth process. I want to prevent user to reach some of my pages unless the user is not logged in. Trying to make it with Route:filter but it does not work. What i have done wrong ?

Route::filter('/pages/mainpage', function() {     if(!Auth::check())      {         return Redirect::action('PagesController@index');     } }); 

Answer 1

You should use the auth middleware. In your route just add it like this:

Route::get('pages/mainpage', ['middleware' => 'auth', 'uses' => 'FooController@index']); 

Or in your controllers constructor:

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

Answer 2

use

Auth::check() 

more here https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/authentication#authenticating-users in Determining If The Current User Is Authenticated