I am trying to use the Laravel attempt function within the Auth class to allow a user to login and store themselves in the session.
I understand this function requires an array with the 'password' and 'email' variables and I am sending this fine, it just doesn't seem to be logging me in or returning true.
Here is my controller code:
class LoginController extends BaseController {
public function login()
{
if(isset($_POST)) {
$errorsArray = array();
foreach($_POST as $key => $postItem) {
if(empty($postItem) || $postItem == "") {
$errorsArray[] = array(
'errorItem' => $key,
'errorMessage' => "Please enter a value for " .ucfirst($postItem)
);
}
}
if(!empty($errorsArray)) {
$returnArray = array(
'didLog' => false,
'errors' => $errorsArray
);
} else {
if(Auth::attempt(array('username' => $_POST['username'], 'password' => $_POST['password']))) {
die("here");
} else {
die("no");
}
}
return json_encode($returnArray);
}
}
}
As you can see above, I am checking to see if the inputs are valid, and if so, calling the Auth::attempt function in order to log a user in.
The view code:
<form>
<h3><i class="lock"></i>Please enter your login details</h3>
<input type="email" name="username" placeholder="email" data-required=1 />
<input type="password" name="password" placeholder="password" data-required=1 />
<input type="submit" value="login" />
<button>Signup with Facebook</button>
<button>Signup with Twitter</button>
<a href="#" class="close-overlay" data-related="login-overlay">CLOSE</a>
<div class="clear"></div>
</form>
And the appropriate Javascript code
jQuery.ajax({
type : "post",
dataType : "json",
url : url,
data : "username=" + username + "&password=" + password,
success : function(data) {
if(data.didLog == true) {
alert("rrue");
} else {
alert("false");
}
}
});
And I have die(print_r(()) the input (which is present in my database) as follows:
Array
( [username] => jamesholman@bigwavemedia.co.uk [password] => password )
And the appropriate record in the database
I am getting a "no" (which is a fail in my code) when attempting to login. Can anyone see where I am going wrong as I can't for the life of me figure out why it won't work! Thanks