php – Laravel 5 – After login redirect back to previous page

Solution for laravel 5.3:

In loginController overwrite the showLoginForm() function as this one:

public function showLoginForm()
{
    if(!session()->has('url.intended'))
    {
        session(['url.intended' => url()->previous()]);
    }
    return view('auth.login');    
}

It will set the “url.intended” session variable, that is the one that laravel uses to look for the page which you want to be redirected after the login, with the previous url.

It also checks if the variable has been set, in order to avoid the variable to be set with the login url if the user submit the form with an error.

For Laravel 5.5, following code worked for me by just updating LoginController.php

public function showLoginForm()
{
    session(['link' => url()->previous()]);
    return view('auth.login');
}


protected function authenticated(Request $request, $user)
{
    return redirect(session('link'));
}

Please use redirect()->intended() instead in Laravel 5.1

You can also see more about it here: http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/authentication

For Laravel 5.3

inside App/Http/Controllers/Auth/LoginController
add this line to the __construct() function

$this->redirectTo = url()->previous();

So the full code will be

public function __construct()
{
    $this->redirectTo = url()->previous();
    $this->middleware('guest', ['except' => 'logout']);
}

It works like a charm for me i’m using laravel 5.3.30

For Laravel 5.4, following code worked for me by just updating LoginController.php

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Session;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\URL;


public function __construct()
{
    $this->middleware('guest', ['except' => 'logout']);
    Session::put('backUrl', URL::previous());
}


public function redirectTo()
{
    return Session::get('backUrl') ? Session::get('backUrl') :   $this->redirectTo;
}

The Laravel 5.6, When user insert wrong credentials then login page will reload and session([‘link’ => url()->previous()]); will take login URL in link variable. So the user will redirect to a login page again or redirect to /home if login success. So to avoid these below code working for me! After that no matter how much time user insert wrong credentials he will redirect after login to exactly where he was before login page.

Update or overwrite public function showLoginForm() in LoginController.

public function showLoginForm()
{
    if (session('link')) {
        $myPath     = session('link');
        $loginPath  = url('/login');
        $previous   = url()->previous();

        if ($previous = $loginPath) {
            session(['link' => $myPath]);
        }
        else{
            session(['link' => $previous]);
        }
    }
    else{
         session(['link' => url()->previous()]);
    }

    return view('auth.login');
}

Also, Update or Overwrite protected function authenticated(Request $request, $user) in LoginController.

protected function authenticated(Request $request, $user)
{     
    return redirect(session('link'));      
}

Look into laravel cheat sheet

and use:

URL::previous();

to go to the previous page.

Redirect to login with the current’s page url as a query string:

<a href="{{ url('login?redirect_to=' . urlencode(request()->url())) }}">login</a>

In your LoginController check if exists and save the query string in session then redirect to the url after login

public function __construct() {
        parent::__construct();
        if ( \request()->get( 'redirect_to' ) ) {
            session()->put( 'redirect.url', \request()->get( 'redirect_to' ) );
        }
        $this->middleware( 'guest' )->except( 'logout' );
}

protected function authenticated(Request $request, $user) {
        if(session()->has('redirect.url') {
             return redirect( session()->get( 'redirect.url' ) );
        }
}

If you want to redirect always to /home except for those pages with comments, then you should overwrite your redirectTo method in your LoginController:

public function redirectTo()
{
     return session('url.intended') ?? $this->redirectTo;
}

On all pages where you want to remain on the site, you should store the url for one request in the session:

public function show(Category $category, Project $project){
   // ...

   session()->flash('url.intended' , '/' . request()->path());
}

add this to LoginController:

protected function redirectTo(){
    return url()->previous();
}

Note: if present the field $redirectTo , remove it

in your RedirectIfAuthenticated.php change this code

public function handle($request, Closure $next, $guard = null)
    {
        if (Auth::guard($guard)->check()) {
            return redirect()->intended('/contactus');
        }

        return $next($request);
    }

please notice to :

return redirect()->intended('/contactus');

You can use redirect back with Laravel 5:

<?php namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Redirect;   
class SomeController extends Controller { 
    public function some_method() {
       return Redirect::back()
    }
}

Use Thss

return Redirect::back(‘back-url’)