Laravel - Authentication - Retrieving The Authenticated User

After installing an authentication starter kit and allowing users to register and authenticate with your application, you will often need to interact with the currently authenticated user. While handling an incoming request, you may access the authenticated user via the Auth facade's user method:

    
    use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;
    
    // Retrieve the currently authenticated user...
    $user = Auth::user();
    
    // Retrieve the currently authenticated user's ID...
    $id = Auth::id();
	

Alternatively, once a user is authenticated, you may access the authenticated user via an Illuminate\Http\Request instance. Remember, type-hinted classes will automatically be injected into your controller methods. By type-hinting the Illuminate\Http\Request object, you may gain convenient access to the authenticated user from any controller method in your application via the request's user method:

    
    user()
        }
    }