I'm trying to extend Laravel's Auth Guard class by one additional method, so I'm able to call Auth::myCustomMethod()
at the end.
Following the documentation section Extending The Framework I'm stuck on how to exactly do this because the Guard class itself doesn't have an own IoC binding which I could override.
Here is some code demonstrating what I'm trying to do:
namespace Foobar\Extensions\Auth;
class Guard extends \Illuminate\Auth\Guard {
public function myCustomMethod()
{
// ...
}
}
Now how should I register the extended class Foobar\Extensions\Auth\Guard
to be used instead of the original Illuminate\Auth\Guard
so I'm able to call Auth::myCustomMethod()
the same way as e.g. Auth::check()
?
One way would be to replace the Auth
alias in the app/config/app.php
but I'm not sure if this is really the best way to solve this.
BTW: I'm using Laravel 4.1.
I would create my own UserProvider service that contain the methods I want and then extend Auth.
I recommend creating your own service provider, or straight up extending the Auth class in one of the start files (eg.
start/global.php
).This is a good tutorial you can follow to get a better understanding
There is another method you could use. It would involve extending one of the current providers such as Eloquent.
Then you could just extend auth as above but with your custom provider.
Once you've implemented the code you would change the driver in the
auth.php
config file to use 'nonDescriptAuth`.