Hello, welcome back to my series, previously, I wrote on how to Customize Laravel Auth (Laravel Breeze Registration and Login), this is for those that use Laravel breeze for Authentification, but some of my readers who used Laravel Jetstream are still finding it difficult to customize the Registration and Login process in order to suit their needs.
For those that did not read the previous article, what we are trying to achieve is to customize the Registration and Login whereby a developer can choose to use username and password for login different from the default email and password, this is because some of the users of your application might not be having email address, so the person might use username for the registration and be using it for login.
without further ado, let's dive into the stuff of the day, if you read Customize Laravel Auth (Laravel Breeze Registration and Login), most of the steps are similar.
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Step 1: Edit the CreateNewUser.php
If you scaffold your authentication using Laravel Jetstream and installed livewire or inertia, you will have an Action folder in your App directory, and also a Fortify directory inside the Action with some files.
Go to app/Actions/Fortify/CreateNewUser.php customize the create method to this
public function create(array $input)
{
Validator::make($input, [
'firstname' => ['required', 'string', 'max:255'],
'lastname' => ['required', 'string', 'max:255'],
'username' => ['required', 'string', 'max:255'],
'password' => $this->passwordRules(),
])->validate();
return User::create([
'firstname' => $input['firstname'],
'lastname' => $input['lastname'],
'username' => $input['username'],
'email' => $input['email'],
'password' => Hash::make($input['password']),
]);
}
In the validate( ) method, I removed email, and added firstname, lastname and username. Also in the User::create, I added the new fields.
Step 2: Create another migration file to add the new fields to the User table
php artisan make:migration add_more_fields_to_users_table --table=users
A migrations file will be created, go to database/migrations/ 
Step 3: Add the new fields and modify the name field
We are going to modify the existing name field with firstname and also add other fields, but to modify an existing fields, we need a package doctrine/dbal, The Doctrine DBAL library is used to determine the current state of the column and to create the SQL queries needed to make the requested changes to your column. Laravel docs
composer require doctrine/dbal
After this, update the composer, by running the command below
composer update
Then add the following fields to the up( ) method of the migration file created above
public function up()
{
Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->renameColumn('name', 'firstname');
$table->string('lastname');
$table->string('username')->unique();
$table->string('email')->nullable()->change();
});
}
You will notice how we are going to rename our name field to firstname and added lastname and username, we made the username to be unique() and also modify email from mandatory to nullable().
Finally, run the migration command
php artisan migrate
Database
Step 4: Modify the Users Model
We need to add the fields to be fill in users model, go to app/Models/User.php and edit the protected $fillable to add the new fields
protected $fillable = [
'firstname',
'email',
'password',
'username',
'lastname'
];
Step 5: Modify the Registration view
Go to resources/views/auth/register.blade.php and modify to this
<x-guest-layout>
<x-jet-authentication-card>
<x-slot name="logo">
<x-jet-authentication-card-logo />
</x-slot>
<x-jet-validation-errors class="mb-4" />
<form method="POST" action="{{ route('register') }}">
@csrf
<div>
<x-jet-label value="{{ __('First Name') }}" />
<x-jet-input class="block mt-1 w-full" type="text" name="firstname" :value="old('firstname')" required autofocus autocomplete="firstname" />
</div>
<div>
<x-jet-label value="{{ __('Last Name') }}" />
<x-jet-input class="block mt-1 w-full" type="text" name="lastname" :value="old('lastname')" required autocomplete="lastname" />
</div>
<div>
<x-jet-label value="{{ __('Username') }}" />
<x-jet-input class="block mt-1 w-full" type="text" name="username" :value="old('username')" autocomplete="username" />
</div>
<div class="mt-4">
<x-jet-label value="{{ __('Email') }}" />
<x-jet-input class="block mt-1 w-full" type="email" name="email" :value="old('email')" />
</div>
<div class="mt-4">
<x-jet-label value="{{ __('Password') }}" />
<x-jet-input class="block mt-1 w-full" type="password" name="password" required autocomplete="new-password" />
</div>
<div class="mt-4">
<x-jet-label value="{{ __('Confirm Password') }}" />
<x-jet-input class="block mt-1 w-full" type="password" name="password_confirmation" required autocomplete="new-password" />
</div>
<div class="flex items-center justify-end mt-4">
<a class="underline text-sm text-gray-600 hover:text-gray-900" href="{{ route('login') }}">
{{ __('Already registered?') }}
</a>
<x-jet-button class="ml-4">
{{ __('Register') }}
</x-jet-button>
</div>
</form>
</x-jet-authentication-card>
</x-guest-layout>
Start our application with
php artisan serve
Click on Register, we are going to have this
Step 6: Modify the Login view
Go to resources/views/auth/login.blade.php and modify to this
<x-guest-layout>
<x-jet-authentication-card>
<x-slot name="logo">
<x-jet-authentication-card-logo />
</x-slot>
<x-jet-validation-errors class="mb-4" />
@if (session('status'))
<div class="mb-4 font-medium text-sm text-green-600">
{{ session('status') }}
</div>
@endif
<form method="POST" action="{{ route('login') }}">
@csrf
<div>
<x-jet-label value="{{ __('Username') }}" />
<x-jet-input class="block mt-1 w-full" type="text" name="username" :value="old('username')" required autofocus />
</div>
<div class="mt-4">
<x-jet-label value="{{ __('Password') }}" />
<x-jet-input class="block mt-1 w-full" type="password" name="password" required autocomplete="current-password" />
</div>
<div class="block mt-4">
<label class="flex items-center">
<input type="checkbox" class="form-checkbox" name="remember">
<span class="ml-2 text-sm text-gray-600">{{ __('Remember me') }}</span>
</label>
</div>
<div class="flex items-center justify-end mt-4">
@if (Route::has('password.request'))
<a class="underline text-sm text-gray-600 hover:text-gray-900" href="{{ route('password.request') }}">
{{ __('Forgot your password?') }}
</a>
@endif
<x-jet-button class="ml-4">
{{ __('Login') }}
</x-jet-button>
</div>
</form>
</x-jet-authentication-card>
</x-guest-layout>
We removed email field and replace it with username field
Step 7: Modify the Fortify configuration file
We are going to specify what we are going to be using for the login, so go to config/fortify.php, you will see an array, find the username key and change it to username from email,
'username' => 'username',
Then clear your config and cache
php artisan config:cache
Run your app in case it is down
php artisan serve
We can now login with username and password instead of email address. That is all
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Top comments (7)
I slightly got overwhelmed with the changes of laravel 8 esp with laravel jetstream. That’s why I prefer the laravel breeze which is simpler. The simpler the better. But I’m glad that someone wrote about jetstream. Given the overall complexity that jetstream add to the laravel project, I think it’s worth to try and explore.
Where ranaming
$table->renameColumn('name', 'firstname');a column can I also make it nullable in the same line?Bro... this is an amazing and clear tutorial. Best I've seen in a long time. Thanks a lot!
sir , can you make a tutorial for multiplle authentication in laravel jetstream
bro could you please help me how to add nav menu and use your layout ?
and please help me how to add some logic to call specific model in controller dashboard?
thank you sir
Thanks before, this is exactly what i need. But, I got error, where is LoginHistory class?
Is it possible to use any of them without migrations?
I've ready have my database.