Laravel Force User Logout

Many times we store data in user session. Now what if that session data is updated and we want to show updated data to user ? Because user is already logged in, new data won’t be visible for user. In this can we need to break user’s current session. So once user re-logins, he/she can see get new session data.

Here I have explain how we can break user’s session and force logout to any user.

Step 1: Add column “should_re_login” to users table with default 0 value.

Step 2: Add below code to middleware. This code will check if current user has “should_re_login” == 1, then it will make it 0, break the session and redirect user to login page.

$user = auth()->user();
if($user->should_re_login == 1){
  $user->should_re_login = 0;
  $user->save();
  Auth::logout();
  return redirect('/login');
}

Step 3: Add below code to Auth/LoginController. This code will make “should_re_login” flag to 0 once user logins.

$user = auth()->user();
$user->should_re_login = 0;
$user->save();

That’s it. We made it. Now whenever you want to break any user’s session, just make “should_re_login” = 1 in users table for corresponding user.

In above process,

Step 2 will be used if user is already logged in and we want to break the session.

Step 3 will be used when user is already logged out and we want to break the session.

Thank me later.