Laravel 5 redirect to home page if attempting to go to login screen

Question

I have a login screen which is the base url (www.mysite.com/).

When a user logs in they are redirected to their home page (/home).

But the can still get back to the login page if they go to the root.

How do I make it so logged in users are sent back to their home page if they are logged in (if they are not, of course they see the login page)?

Answer 1

I did this in my router, although I'm not sure if it's the best solution:

Route::get('/', function () {
    if(Auth::check()) {
        return redirect('/dashboard');
    } else {
        return view('auth.login');
    }
});

Answer 2

You should use middleware for this.

Laravel 5 has already a 'guest' middleware out of the box you can use, so just doing the following should be enough:

Route::get('/', ['middleware' =>'guest', function(){
  return view('auth.login');
}]);

Then in the middleware file App\Http\Middleware\RedirectIfAuthenticated you can specify where the user is redirected to.

The default is /home.