在Confide laravel 4中获取当前用户ID

Question

How to get the current logged-in user's details in Laravel 4? My code is:

$user = User::find(Confide::user()->id);

$message = new Message(Input::all());
$message->user_id = $user; 
$message->save();

Answer 1

If you are using Laravel default Authentication so you can simply call like the following

$id = Auth::id();

Laravel documentation explain like the following

To retrieve the authenticated user's ID, you may use the id method:

$id = Auth::id();

Read more about Authentication at Laravel's Documentation.