Laravel 6 JWT Multi-Model Authentication

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If you are also messed up with JWT Multi-Model, then this article is for you.

In this article, I’m going to explain how, you can use any other model than Users to authenticate the APIs.

If you have Laravel 6 or above, install this specific version of jwt ^1.0.0

composer require tymon/jwt-auth ^1.0.0

Then, Add the service provider to the providers array in the config/app.php config file as follows:

'providers' => [      
   ...      
   Tymon\JWTAuth\Providers\LaravelServiceProvider::class, 
]

Publish the config

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Tymon\JWTAuth\Providers\LaravelServiceProvider"

Generate secret key

php artisan jwt:secret

This will update your .env file with something like JWT_SECRET=foobar

Then uncomment the auth middleware in the same file:

$app->routeMiddleware([     
'auth' => App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate::class, 
]);

Update your User model

// Your custom model must extend Authenticatable and implements
JWTSubjectuse Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Tymon\JWTAuth\Contracts\JWTSubject;

admin.php

Configure Auth guard

Make a new guard for admin_api

Here we are making the admin_api guard to use the jwt driver and admins provider.

We can now use Laravel’s built in Auth system, with jwt-auth doing the work behind the scenes!

config/auth.php

Add some basic authentication routes

First let’s add some routes in routes/api.php as follows:

routes/api.php

AuthController

The whole magic is in this file.

Here, now you want to authenticate admins instead of users in this controller, so here you can set default driver to ‘admin’ in the construction function.

You can test your routes on postman.

If you also want to learn more about Laravel, You should learn about PHP namespace and traits and how they are used in Laravel.

PHP & Laravel NameSpaces and Traits-01

I hope you learned in this article, I just wrote this article for you, please let me know, if this works for you. Thanks

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