How implement 'remember me' in laravel 5.1

Question

How to implement rememeber me functionality in laravel 5.1? Can anyone give me an example?

Answer 1

Laravel authentication offers remember me functionality out of the box.

In order to use it you need to do 2 things:

• add remember_token column in your users table - this is where the token will be stored
• pass true as a second parameter of Auth::attempt() to enable remember me behaviour

If you do this, Laravel will generate a token that will be saved in users table and in a cookie. On subsequent requests, even if session cookie is not available, user will be authenticated automatically as long as remember-me cookie is there.

You can find more details and example in the docs: https://laravel.com/docs/5.1/authentication#remembering-users