Laravel custom auth filter

before-filter, laravel-4, php

Solution

Thanks to @diegofelix for putting me on the right track.

I've managed to write a filter that:

- Prompts the user for their credentials

- Redirects to the homepage for non-admin users

- Allows an Admin user to go to the original URL

Route::filter('admin', function()  
{

    if (Auth::guest()) return Redirect::guest('internal/login');

    if (Auth::check())
    {
        if (!Auth::User()->Admin)
            return Redirect::to('/');
    }
    else
        return Redirect::to('/');
});

This filter requires no changes to the Login method on my controller, which still uses Redirect::intended('/'). The key to this is NOT to redirect for Admin users, simply letting the code "fall through" to the original page, only non-admin users are redirected. I'm also still using the standard "auth" filter to pages that require non-admin authentication.

My routes use either:

'before' => 'auth'
'before' => 'admin'

If I remove the first line of my admin filter (which I copied from the standard auth filter), I could get the same effect by using both filters together like so:

'before' => 'auth|admin'

Problem

I've added the standard auth filter to several routes using Route::Intended('/') in the controller (assuming login is successful). filters.php: ``` Route::filter('auth', function(){ if (Auth::guest()) return Redirect::guest('internal/login'); }); ``` Controller: ``` if (Auth::attempt($data, false)) { return Redirect::intended('/'); } ``` How do I go about creating a custom auth filter that checks for a specific permission (isAdmin in this case)? I've made the auth.admin filter the same as the standard auth filter to redirect to the login page, but do I need a second Login method on my controller or is there a way to tell which filter (if any) invoked the controller method? ``` if (Auth::attempt($data, false)) { if (RouteHasAdminFilter()) { if (!Auth::User()->Admin) return Redirect::intended('/'); else return Redirect::to('/'); } else { return Redirect::intended('/'); } } ```

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