Laravel Redirect does not work in Event handler / listener

Question

I have a Auth.Attempt event handler class, which I detect user\'s login attempts to decide to lock user\'s account. However, when I tried to redirect user to login page with

Answer 1

Not getting to much into this very interesting discussion:

Should exceptions be used for flow control

You can try setting up your own exception handler and redirect from there on to the login page.

class FancyException extends Exception {}

App::error(function(FancyException $e, $code, $fromConsole)
{
    $msg = $e->getMessage();        
    Log::error($msg);

    if ( $fromConsole )
    {
        return 'Error '.$code.': '.$msg."\n";
    }

    if (Config::get('app.debug') == false) {
        return Redirect::route('your.login.route');
    }
    else
    {
        //some debug stuff here
    }


});

And in your function:

public function onLoginAttempt($data)
{
    //detection process.......
    // if login attempts more than max attempts
    throw new FancyException("some msg here");
}

Answer 2

You can still send an HttpException who will work. But obviously instructions after the event handler will not be interpreted

abort(redirect('/'));