Auth Issue with Laravel

Question

I am learning laravel and to practice I am carrying out a project that I used a few months ago that I made with PHP without any framework, so I am transferring it little by little. I have encountered some problems and one of them is that I can't add an authentication middleware to be able to access to the dashboard. I had tried doing something like this

// Route::get('/dashboard', function() {
// return view('login/dashboard');
// });

And so I was able to login if the username and password match, but I can login through the URL by adding /dashboard to the end, for that reason I need the middleware but I can't get it to work. If anyone can help me I would be glad. Thanks.

By the way, I have been checking the logic and within:

    if ($user && $user->username !== null && Hash::check($credentials['username'], $username-    >username)) {
            //return redirect()->intended('/dashboard');
            return 'test';
        }

Which would be when my username and password match then if it displays the message.

This is my Authenticate.php:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\Authenticate as Middleware;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class Authenticate extends Middleware
{
    /**
     * Get the path the user should be redirected to when they are not authenticated.
     */
    protected function redirectTo(Request $request): ?string
    {
        return $request->expectsJson() ? null : route('login');
    }
}

This is my web.php (routes/web.php)

<?php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;
use App\Http\Controllers\AuthController;

Auth::routes();

Route::get('/', [AuthController::class, 'showLoginForm'])->name('login');


Route::post('/', [AuthController::class, 'loginValidator'])->name('login.validator');

Route::middleware('auth')->group(function () {
    Route::get('/dashboard', function() {
        return view('dashboard.index');
    })->name('dashboard');
});

This is my model Usuario.php:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Usuario extends Model
{
    use HasFactory;

    protected $table = 'usuarios';

    protected $primaryKey = 'idUsuario';

    protected $fillable = [
        'nombreUsuario', 'contrasenaUsuario', 'sucursal', 'tipoUsuario'
    ];

}

This is my AuthController.php:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\Usuario;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;



class AuthController extends Controller
{
    public function showLoginForm()
    {
        return view('login.index');
    }

    public function loginValidator(Request $request)
    {
        $credentials = $request->only('nombreUsuario', 'contrasenaUsuario');
        $usuario = Usuario::where('nombreUsuario', $credentials['nombreUsuario'])
        ->where('contrasenaUsuario', '!=', null) 
        ->first();

        if ($usuario && $usuario->contrasenaUsuario !== null && Hash::check($credentials['contrasenaUsuario'], $usuario->contrasenaUsuario)) {
            return redirect()->intended('/dashboard');
        }
        
        return redirect('/')->withErrors(['nombreUsuario' => 'Credenciales incorrectas']);
    }
}

And this is my auth.php with the name of the table as "usuarios":

<?php

return [



    'defaults' => [
        'guard' => 'web',
        'passwords' => 'users',
    ],



    'guards' => [
        'web' => [
            'driver' => 'session',
            'provider' => 'usuarios',
        ],
    ],



    'providers' => [
        'usuarios' => [
            'driver' => 'eloquent',
            'model' => App\Models\Usuario::class,
        ],


    ],



    'passwords' => [
        'users' => [
            'provider' => 'users',
            'table' => 'password_reset_tokens',
            'expire' => 60,
            'throttle' => 60,
        ],
    ],



    'password_timeout' => 10800,

];

Answer 1

I modified my file Usuario.php to this:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable;
use Illuminate\Auth\Authenticatable as AuthenticableTrait;

class Usuario extends Model implements Authenticatable
{
    use HasFactory, AuthenticableTrait;

    protected $table = 'usuarios';
    protected $primaryKey = 'idUsuario';
    protected $fillable = [
        'nombreUsuario', 'contrasenaUsuario', 'sucursal', 'tipoUsuario'
    ];
}

And added

Auth::login($usuario); 

Between

if ($usuario && $usuario->contrasenaUsuario !== null && Hash::check($credentials['contrasenaUsuario'], $usuario->contrasenaUsuario)) {
            Auth::login($usuario);
            return redirect()->intended('/dashboard');
}

Apparently that fixed it, thank you very much! @lagbox