Find User in Laravel by Username

Question

So typically if you have access to the id of a user in laravel you can run User::find($id), however say you don\'t have access to the user\'s id and only their username. Is

Answer 1

It depends. If a user is logged in you can have any information you want by:

$field = Auth::user()->field;

But if they are not logged in and you just want their user_id you can use:

$user_id = User::select('id')->where('username', $username)->first();