#auth #development #laravel #php

Laravel makes hard stuff really easy to do.

Imagine the case where you want to be able to login as a different user (a scenario which happens a lot during development). Instead of entering the credentials over and over again, you can do something like this:

1if (app()->environment('local') {
2    Auth::logout();
3  
4    $user = User::find(1); // Or a different query to get the correct user
5  
6    Auth::login($user);
7}

Just be aware that this can be a security issue, hence the check to make this work only in the local environment.

Never, ever, allow stuff like this on production.

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