Laravel 5 - How to check username & password is match with table?
Stefan Izdrail
Founder & Senior Architect · 2026-06-29
Title: Laravel 5 - How to Check Username & Password Match in Your Application
Body:
In this comprehensive blog post, we will discuss how to create a login system using Laravel 5 and ensure the entered username and password matches with those stored in your database table. We will cover everything from database structure, view creation, controller handling, model implementation, and routing. Let's get started!
1. Database Structure
For this tutorial, we need to have a separate table for storing users' details with their usernames and passwords. Let's create a new database table called 'admin_details':<?php
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
class AdminDetails extends Migration
{
/**
* Run the migrations.
*
* @return void
*/
public function up()
{
Schema::create('admin_details', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->increments('id');
$table->string('name');
$table->string('username')->unique();
$table->string('email')->unique();
$table->string('password', 60);
$table->integer('status');
$table->rememberToken();
$table->timestamps();
});
}
/**
* Reverse the migrations.
*
* @return void
*/
public function down()
{
Schema::drop('admin_details');
}
}
2. View Creation
To create your login form view, you can follow this basic structure:<form name="frmLogin" action="{{ URL::to('administrator/userAuthentication') }}" method="post">
<input name="_token" type="hidden" value="{{ csrf_token() }}"/>
<div class="form-group has-feedback">
<input type="text" name="username" id="username"class="form-control" placeholder="Username">
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-envelope form-control-feedback"></span>
</div>
<div class="form-group has-feedback">
<input type="password" name="password" id="password" class="form-control" placeholder="Password">
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-lock form-control-feedback"></span>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-4">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary btn-block btn-flat">Login</button>
</div><!-- /.col -->
</div>
</form>
3. Controller Handling
To handle the login form submission, you can create a controller for your users' authentication:<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Requests;
use Auth;
use App\AdminLoginModel;
class AdminLoginController extends Controller
{
/**
* Display a listing of the resource.
*
* @return Response
*/
public function index()
{
return view('backend.login');
}
/**
* Handle an authentication attempt for admin user.
*
*/
public function userAuthentication(Request $request)
{
if (Auth::attempt(array('username' => $request->username, 'password' => $request->password))){
return "success";
}else{
return "Wrong Credentials";
}
die;
}
}
4. Model Implementation
You need a model for managing your user's login details. In Laravel, the best practice is to use the Eloquent ORM to create models based on your database tables:<?php
/*namespace App;
use DB;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;*/
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Auth\Authenticatable;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Auth\Passwords\CanResetPassword;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\Authenticatable as AuthenticatableContract;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\CanResetPassword as CanResetPasswordContract;
class AdminLoginModel extends Model implements AuthenticatableContract, CanResetPasswordContract
{
protected $table = 'admin_details';
protected $fillable = ['username', 'password'];
}
5. Routes Configuration
Finally, you need to configure your routes in order to handle login requests:<?php
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Application Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register all of the routes for an application.
| It's a breeze. Simply tell Laravel the URIs it should respond to
| and give it the controller to call when that URI is requested.
|
*/
Route::get('/', function () {
return view('welcome');
});
Route::resource('dashboard','DashboardController');
Route::resource('administrator','AdminLoginController');
Route::resource('administrator/userAuthentication', 'AdminLoginController@userAuthentication');