My Boss: How long will it take to create login and registration page?
Me: 30 seconds.
Boss: You can't be serious.
Me: (Spinned up Laravel, entered comand - php artisan make:auth
Me: (To Boss) It's done.
Boss: What!

You mean to say php is useful?

Or is it Laravel that is useful?

@Cyanide Laravel is great like that. It makes PHP up-to-speed with Node, Python and Ruby as a language for the modern web.

I really need to try it.
I am too lazy.

@PrivateGER it's really good.

Well, this command can be run only at project start, and yes, you have a working auth, but still some modification to do to obtain a perfect one.
With laravel i prefer doing manual auth, still using auth method tho

I love Laravel!

@ElaineG I really need to learn it 😅

@linuxxx you won't look back, honest 😄

@danharrin it’s just that I write loads of libraries myself and I couldn’t find a way of including those very easily. Next to that I don’t get how the routes work and how to easily integrate a custom login system as I’ve written an extensive one myself 😬

@linuxxx ngl you have probably worked very hard to develop those libraries, but Laravel probably already ships with some of their equivalents. The login system is included and everything.

@danharrin custom token length, custom validity (resets) time, Auto blocking and security-email-unblocking features, brute force protection, that included? If yes that’d be awesome.

What about the other things I named? 😬

@linuxxx although that functionality doesn't come default, there are ways to overwrite methods in the authentication class to customise the processes like you have mentioned.

@danharrin and simple requires anywhere in the code? 😅

@linuxxx requiring what exactly?

@danharrin php files! Because I’ve got a shitload of libraries and stuff I always use with projects

@linuxxx I meant examples. Should it just be a case of "use"ing the library and then referencing a method in that when you require its use?

You can do the same with .NET core and probably Java Spring.

@sSam It really depends on what you want to achieve. Spring Security is crazy huge and can be exceptionally complicated.
You want to do basic things, sure - easy.

Idk how .NET handles this, but I can imagine it's pretty close to Spring.

Thanks everyone for your comments. This is inspiring. I will try to respond to comments as I deem fit. One-by-one.

@Cyanide PHP is useful. What I'm trying to say is Laravel (and most of other php frameworks) makes writing php codes faster.

@Jakuho.

Yes, you only need to run it at start project and it will create authentication pages (register, login & forget password) with basic fields. However, if you need complex (or extra fields) in your auth pages, then you need to go beyond the make auth command.

@Jakuho.

Manual auth is necessary for complex authentication with many logical fields.