Have you looked at the example auth controller in L5, it has what you need. The docs are not up to date. Also look at laracast.

jimgwhit said:

Have you looked at the example auth controller in L5, it has what you need. The docs are not up to date. Also look at laracast.

I believe the example auth controller is the Auth/AuthController class that I'm trying to use.

Here is my auth controller, it does work. Note I use userid rather than email.

<?php namespace App\Http\Controllers\Auth;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Guard;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Registrar;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers;

class AuthController extends Controller {

	/*
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	| Registration & Login Controller
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	|
	| This controller handles the registration of new users, as well as the
	| authentication of existing users. By default, this controller uses
	| a simple trait to add these behaviors. Why don't you explore it?
	|
	*/

	use AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers;

	/**
	 * Create a new authentication controller instance.
	 *
	 * @param  \Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Guard  $auth
	 * @param  \Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Registrar  $registrar
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function __construct(Guard $auth, Registrar $registrar)
	{
		$this->auth = $auth;
		$this->registrar = $registrar;

		$this->middleware('guest', ['except' => 'getLogout']);
	}
        
        
           public function getLogin()
	{
		//return view('auth.login');
                return view('auth.testview');
	}
        
        public function postLogin(Request $request)
	{
		$this->validate($request, [
			'userid' => 'required', 'password' => 'required',
		]);
                
                //added
                
                echo 'made it here====';
            $tvar = $request->input('userid');
            //echo $tvar;
            $pw = $request->input('password');
            if ($this->auth->attempt(['userid' => $tvar, 'password' => $pw]))
		{
                    //echo 'logged in========'.$request->user->userid;
                    //echo 'logged in========'.$request->user()->userid;
                    $yourvar = $request->user()->userid;
                    echo $yourvar;
                    echo "====loggin in now";
                    //return redirect('olist');
		}
            else
                {
                    echo ' not logged in';
                }

                //added

		/*$credentials = $request->only('email', 'password');

		if ($this->auth->attempt($credentials, $request->has('remember')))
		{
			return redirect($this->redirectPath());
		}

		return redirect('/auth/login')
					->withInput($request->only('email'))
					->withErrors([
						'email' => 'These credentials do not match our records.',
					]);*/
	}
        
        public function getLogout()
	{
		$this->auth->logout();

		return redirect('/');
	}



}//end class

My L5 is in work so controller isn't finished, but the login works 100%.

I had this same problem, searched around for a few days. Decided to drop the controller and wrote my own

But the issue I seem to be having is not that the controller doesn't work, its that the system doesn't find it. None of it gets to run and/or fail. It may be an issue with namespaces, or just me being dumb.

For the record, here's the content of my AuthController.php, sitting on app/Http/Controllers/Auth

<?php namespace App\Http\Controllers\Auth;

use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Guard;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Registrar;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers;

class AuthController extends Controller {

	/*
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	| Registration & Login Controller
	|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
	|
	| This controller handles the registration of new users, as well as the
	| authentication of existing users. By default, this controller uses
	| a simple trait to add these behaviors. Why don't you explore it?
	|
	*/

	use AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers;

	/**
	 * Create a new authentication controller instance.
	 *
	 * @param  \Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Guard  $auth
	 * @param  \Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Registrar  $registrar
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function __construct(Guard $auth, Registrar $registrar)
	{
		$this->auth = $auth;
		$this->registrar = $registrar;

		$this->middleware('guest', ['except' => 'getLogout']);
	}

}

Do your controller like mine and it will work, you are missing a use statement...

Actually, the most probable cause of this is leaving $namespace variable null in RouteServiceProvider as suggested in upgrade guide.

/**
 * This namespace is applied to the controller routes in your routes file.
 *
 * In addition, it is set as the URL generator's root namespace.
 *
 * @var string
 */
protected $namespace = null; // 'App\Http\Controllers';

Its resolve by adding this line in my Authenticate.php

use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Guard;

<?php

 namespace App\Http\Middleware;

 use Closure;
 use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
 use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Guard;

 class Authenticate
 {

perfect when i use dingo met the same problem,just add absolute path:

➜  laravel-auth-jwt-entrust git:(master) ✗ artisan api:routes
+------------------------------+----------+-----------------+------+----------------------------------------------------+-----------+------------+----------+------------+
| Host                         | Method   | URI             | Name | Action                                             | Protected | Version(s) | Scope(s) | Rate Limit |
+------------------------------+----------+-----------------+------+----------------------------------------------------+-----------+------------+----------+------------+
| laravel-auth-jwt-entrust.dev | GET|HEAD | /api/hello      |      | App\Http\Controllers\HomeController@index          | No        | v1         |          |            |
| laravel-auth-jwt-entrust.dev | GET|HEAD | /api/auth/login |      | \App\Http\Controllers\Auth\AuthController@getLogin | No        | v1         |          |            |

php artisan make:auth