I tested your code and its working. Check your auth.php, Or i guess you might be using some other name for your user's storing table except the name users.

@Sikandhar Yes, my code looks perfect to me, but it is a mystery. Thank you for looking at it. My table is named users:

-- Table structure for table `users`
--

CREATE TABLE `users` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `email` varchar(50) NOT NULL,
  `username` varchar(20) NOT NULL,
  `password` varchar(60) NOT NULL,
  `password_temp` varchar(60) NOT NULL,
  `code` varchar(60) NOT NULL,
  `active` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `created_at` datetime NOT NULL,
  `updated_at` datetime NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=17 ;

Here is my auth.php

Here is my User model

Maybe something is missing in my User model

Ok, I changed my User model after seeing this post here

I am almost positive I am missing something in my User model but not sure what it is.

<?php

use Illuminate\Auth\UserInterface;
use Illuminate\Auth\Reminders\RemindableInterface;

class User extends Eloquent implements UserInterface, RemindableInterface {

	

	protected $fillable = array('email', 'username', 'password', 'code', 'active');

	/**
	 * The database table used by the model.
	 *
	 * @var string
	 */
	protected $table = 'users';

	/**
	 * The attributes excluded from the model's JSON form.
	 *
	 * @var array
	 */
	protected $hidden = array('Password', 'remember_token');

	/**
	 * Get the unique identifier for the user.
	 *
	 * @return mixed
	 */
	public function getAuthIdentifier()
	{
		return $this->getKey();
	}

	/**
	 * Get the password for the user.
	 *
	 * @return string
	 */
	public function getAuthPassword()
	{
		return $this->password;
	}

	/**
	 * Get the e-mail address where password reminders are sent.
	 *
	 * @return string
	 */
	public function getReminderEmail()
	{
		return $this->email;
	}
	public function getRememberToken()
	{
    return $this->remember_token;
	}

	public function setRememberToken($value)
	{
    $this->remember_token = $value;
	}

	public function getRememberTokenName()
	{
    return 'remember_token';
	}

}

I now added the remember_token as field in users table and three functions according to the laravel docs.

Now I get this error:

Class User contains 1 abstract method and must therefore be declared abstract or implement the remaining methods (Illuminate\Auth\UserInterface::getAuthIdentifier)

This may help. Try Sentry for your authentication, It is easy and powerful.

@Sikandhar

Thank you for suggesting Sentry. I have used it before. I am wanting to do this project from scratch using the Auth and am wanting to fully understand it.

Ok, I got rid of the error, a simple mistake of a misspelling in

public function getAuthIndentifier() //<----bad spelling!!!!

However:

The auth is still not being recognized because in my conditional my error 'Email/password wrong, or account not activated yet?' is showing. I even changed the conditional to true or false, and false come up every time. My auth is not being recognized.

Well, you can't use two returns in a single code block, and I see you are missing a semi-colon.

if($auth) {
                // Redirect to the intended page
                return 'true';
            }else{
                return Redirect::route('account-sign-in') //<--missing a semi-colon which can always lead to unexpected results
                return 'false'; //<--second return will not be executed
            }

@CleverCookie

Not sure where you got that code, but if you look at my Controller in the above link or here, this is what I have. The semicolons are there because I have no syntactical errors, but instead logical errors.

Here is what I have.

if($auth) {
				// Redirect to the intended page
				return Redirect::intended('/');
			}else{
				return Redirect::route('account-sign-in')
					->with('global', 'Email/password wrong, or account not activated yet?');
			}
		}
 
			return Redirect::route('account-sign-in')
				->with('global', 'There was a problem signing you in.');
	}

Thinking about using sentry, but I do not want to give up on this. I always figure out the solution.

I got that code block from your first post on the thread, but I see you don't have anything wrong with your controller.

Does the Auth::attempt() work when you remove 'active' => 1?

I removed the 'active' => 1 and it still throws the error in my conditional.

I did var_dump($auth) and get bool(false)

That is basically saying that the $auth array strings are empty. This does not make sense.

I also tried changing the property to

'active'	=>	User::where('active', '=', '1')->get();

Finally found the mistake. I could kick myself back to Texas. Anyhow, here it is

if ($validator->fails()) {
			return Redirect::route('account-create')
					->withErrors($validator)
					//saves input if redirect occurs because of error
					->withInput();
 
		}else{
			
			$email 		= Input::get('email');
			$username 	= Input::get('username');
			$password 	= Input::get('email');<--------------- should be 'password'