Laravel Passwordless Login is an excellent package that provides a temporary signed route that logs in a user. It does not offer a way of sending the link to the route to the user. This is because It doesn’t want to make any assumptions about how you communicate with your users.

Installation

You can install this package via composer by running this command.

composer require grosv/laravel-passwordless-login

Simple Usage

This is a very simple usage example.

use App\User;
use Grosv\LaravelPasswordlessLogin\LoginUrl;

function sendLoginLink()
{
    $user = User::find(1);

    $generator = new LoginUrl($user);
    $generator->setRedirectUrl('/somewhere/else'); // Override the default url to redirect to after login
    $url = $generator->generate();

    //OR Use a Facade
    $url = PasswordlessLogin::forUser($user)->generate();

    // Send $url in an email or text message to your user
}

Using A Trait

Because some sites have more than one user-type model (users, admins, etc.), you can use a trait to set up the default configurations for each user type. The methods below are provided by the trait, so you only need to include the ones for which you want to use a different value.

use Grosv\LaravelPasswordlessLogin\Traits\PasswordlessLogin;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use PasswordlessLogin;

    public function getGuardNameAttribute(): string 
    {
        return config('laravel-passwordless-login.user_guard');
    }
    
    public function getShouldRememberLoginAttribute(): bool
    {
        return config('laravel-passwordless-login.remember_login');
    }

    public function getLoginRouteExpiresInAttribute(): int
    {
        return config('laravel-passwordless-login.login_route_expires');
    }

    public function getRedirectUrlAttribute(): string
    {
        return config('laravel-passwordless-login.redirect_on_success');
    }
}

If you are using the PasswordlessLogin Trait, you can generate a link using the defaults defined in the trait by simply calling createPasswordlessLoginLink() on the user you want to log in.

The biggest mistake I could see someone making with this package is creating a login link for one user and sending it to another. Please be careful and test your code. I don’t want anyone getting mad at me for someone else’s
silliness.

Configuration

You can publish the config file or just set the values you want to use in your .env file:

LPL_USER_MODEL=App\User
LPL_REMEMBER_LOGIN=false
LPL_LOGIN_ROUTE=/magic-login
LPL_LOGIN_ROUTE_NAME=magic-login
LPL_LOGIN_ROUTE_EXPIRES=30
LPL_REDIRECT_ON_LOGIN=/
LPL_USER_GUARD=web
LPL_USE_ONCE=false
LPL_INVALID_SIGNATURE_MESSAGE="Expired or Invalid Link"

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