How to Implement Remember Me Feature in Laravel ?

Laravel authentication offers remember me functionality out of the box and to implement remember me feature in laravel we only need to follow some guidelines provided by laravel so in this article i will show you the simplest way to implement this. Most of the time while developing login functionality of application its required that to handle the remember me checkbox so that client do not need to keep login again and again on visiting the website back.

We will take a simple example of login form and submitting of it to laravel authentication. we will create a checkbox whether user want to remember the login or not and input box for email and password.

this example will work in any version of laravel 5, laravel 6, laravel 7, laravel 8, and laravel 9. So let’s begin the tutorial.

So there is 2 most important thing we need to do is as follow

Step 1 : Add remember_token column in your users table

In this step you need to add remember_token in your users table so we can store the token on click of remember me checkbox so check your table first if its exist in users table then okay otherwise you need to create it as follow

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

class CreateUsersTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->id();
            $table->string('name');
            $table->string('email')->unique();
            $table->timestamp('email_verified_at')->nullable();
            $table->string('password');
            $table->rememberToken();
            $table->timestamps();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('users');
    }
}

Step 2 : Use Auth::attempt() method and Pass second argument as true

Now, use Auth::attempt() and pass the second argument true to enable the remember me functionality as follow

public function authnticate(Request $req)
{
    $req->validate([
        'email' => 'required|email|min:4|max:50',
        'password' => 'required'
    ]);

    $remember_me = $req->has('remember_me') ? true : false;

    $check = $req->only('email', 'password');
    
    if(\Auth::attempt($check, $remember_me))
    {
        return redirect('user/dashboard');
    }
    else
    {
        session()->put('error-msg', "Please enter the valid username and password");
        return redirect('user/login');
    }
}

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