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Shortcut/Shorten To Get Authenticated User ID in Laravel 8

Originally posted @ https://codeanddeploy.com visit and download the sample code: https://codeanddeploy.com/blog/laravel/shortcutshorten-to-get-authenticated-user-id-in-laravel-8

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In this post, I will share a simple example of how to get the user ID of the authenticated user in Laravel 8. Using the auth() helper function or Auth class in Laravel 8 you will easily get the user ID.

The question is how?

First, we know that auth()->user() or \Auth::user() we can access the authenticated user details from the users table.

So getting the user ID you can access it with the sample below:

echo auth()->user()->id;

//or

echo \Auth::user()->id;

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But we can shorten it by removing the user() function. Now it will become like this:

echo auth()->id();

//or

echo \Auth::id();
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Now the result of the code above is the same but the difference is your code is shorter.

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I hope this tutorial can help you. Kindly visit here https://codeanddeploy.com/blog/laravel/shortcutshorten-to-get-authenticated-user-id-in-laravel-8 if you want to download this code.

Happy coding :)

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