How To Implement Remember Me with Custom Expiration To Your Laravel 8 Login?

In this post, I will share with you how to implement a remember me function with custom time expiration to your Laravel login.

 

UPDATED IMPLEMENTATION VISIT HERE.

 

In my previous post I share about remember me with details now we will tackle how to set the custom expiration. Because in default the Laravel gives 5 years of expiration as you can see below:

 

Okay, let's start.

 

Step 1

Please follow my previous post because I'm using it to shorten this post and simpler.

 

Step 2

Let's do it with Traits for more info please visit the PHP documentation here.

 

Step 3

We will create a new folder named "Services" inside the App folder in the Laravel directory project.

 

Step 4

Create folder "Login" inside "Services" folder then create a file RememberMeExpiration.php

 

Step 5

Then copy this code below:

<?php

namespace App\Services\Login;

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cookie;

trait RememberMeExpiration
{
	/**
     * Set default minutes expiration
     *
     * @var int
     */
	protected $minutesExpiration = 43200; //equivalent of 30 days

	/**
	 * Customize the user logged remember me expiration 
	 * 
	 * @param  \Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable  $user
	 */
	public function setRememberMeExpiration($user) 
	{
		Cookie::queue($this->getRememberMeSessionName(), encrypt($this->setRememberMeValue($user)), $this->minutesExpiration);
	}

	/**
	 * Generate remember me value
	 *
	 * @return string
	 */
	protected function setRememberMeValue($user) 
	{
	    return $user->id . "|" . $user->remember_token . "|" . $user->password;
	}

	/**
	 * Get remember me session name
	 *
	 * @return string
	 */
	protected function getRememberMeSessionName() 
	{
	    return Auth::getRecallerName();
	}
}

 

As you can see above I have a protected property called $minutesExpiration you can customize it depends on your needs.

 

Step 6

Let's use the RememberMeExpiration trait in our LoginController

 

Step 7

This is the complete LoginController code:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Requests\LoginRequest;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
use App\Services\Login\RememberMeExpiration;

class LoginController extends Controller
{
    use RememberMeExpiration;

    /**
     * Display login page.
     * 
     * @return Renderable
     */
    public function show()
    {
        return view('auth.login');
    }

    /**
     * Handle account login request
     * 
     * @param LoginRequest $request
     * 
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function login(LoginRequest $request)
    {
        $credentials = $request->getCredentials();

        if(!Auth::validate($credentials)):
            return redirect()->to('login')
                ->withErrors(trans('auth.failed'));
        endif;

        $user = Auth::getProvider()->retrieveByCredentials($credentials);

        Auth::login($user, $request->get('remember'));

        if($request->get('remember')):
            $this->setRememberMeExpiration($user);
        endif;

        return $this->authenticated($request, $user);
    }

    /**
     * Handle response after user authenticated
     * 
     * @param Request $request
     * @param Auth $user
     * 
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    protected function authenticated(Request $request, $user) 
    {
        return redirect()->intended();
    }
}

 

As you can see above code inside login() method I added these 3 lines of code below:

if($request->get('remember')):
    $this->setRememberMeExpiration($user);
endif;

 

We call the setRememberMeExpiration() method from RememberMeExpiration trait.

 

 

Now we already customized our remember me expiration I hope this tutorial can help you. Download the complete source code below for you to test and use it.

 

Download Source Code

 

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