Hows身份验证会话在laravel中维护

Question

I am using the laravel Framework of php for development.I m using the authentication in-built feature to login the user .following are my questions:-

1. I want to know, how authentication class works and how it maintain authentication session of the user,can i access that user and if yes,then how?

2. On laravel's Authentication Class's documentation page,it is written like

   If you would like to provide "remember me" functionality in your application, you may pass >true as the second argument to the attempt method, which will keep the user authenticated >indefinitely (or until they manually logout):

So, I want to know ,if i didnt specify the remember me , than how long my session gonna be there?

UPDATE :new problem

1. Also ,In my db i have table user_auth instead of Users table and when i try to use authentication class ,its shows me error that users table is missing ,so after little effort ,i found and changed table name in auth.php in config folder ,but still its not working ,help me out?

Answer 1

Here you can find a really nice tutorial regarding registering/authenticating/filtering based on authentication status.

To access the logged in user. You can check the Laravel security page Basically here :

if (Auth::attempt(array('email' => $email, 'password' => $password, 'active' => 1)))
{
    $email = Auth::user()->email;
}

Regarding session parameters ( how many minutes the session lives, etc ) you can check out

app/config/session.php

And see more informations regarding sessions here