什么是laravel 5.2 auth中的auth.authenticate视图

Question

What is the use of auth.authenticate view, as there is no file under the auth direcirectory named "authenticate", also what is loginView here?

As mentioned in this code:

   public function showLoginForm()
    {
        $view = property_exists($this, 'loginView')
                    ? $this->loginView : 'auth.authenticate';

        if (view()->exists($view)) {
            return view($view);
        }

        return view('auth.signin');
    }

Answer 1

This is the auth trait (AuthenticatesUsers), you can overwrite the default view for it. You can overwrite more things like: redirect url when the auth is a success, failure url etc.

So that code can be translated to:

if the property loginView exists then the view loginView will be loaded, else auth.authenticate if auth.authenticate exists then load it else auth.signin

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