Laravel 7/6 Get Current User Example

Today, i want to add small tutorial for how to get current user data in laravel 7/6 application. i will show you how to get current user id, current user name, current user email address in laravel 7/6 app. you can easily get current login user id in controller of laravel 7/6. we will get current user data using auth in laravel 7/6.

It’s most important thing is when you are working with authentication then you know how to get my current login user details. so i will give you example how you can get current user data in laravel 7/6. laravel 7/6 provide auth for authentication, using auth you can easily get current login user data with email, name and id.

So, let’s see i added two way to getting current user data in laravel 6 application.

Auth Helper:

Here, we will get current user data using auth() in laravel 6.

$user = auth()->user();
var_dump($user->id);
var_dump($user->name);
var_dump($user->email);

Output:

12
Hardik
onlinecode@gmail.com

Auth Facade:

Here, we will get current user data using Auth Facade in laravel 6.

$user = Auth::user();
var_dump($user->id);
var_dump($user->name);
var_dump($user->email);

Output:

12
Hardik
onlinecode@gmail.com

I hope it can help you…