How do you determine the cause of a failed Auth::attempt in Laravel 4?

Question

When authenticating a user in Laravel 4, the Auth::attemp(..) method returns false if the authentication failed. Is there a way to narrow down why it failed so I can indicate to my users whether, for example, it was the password vs their username that was in error?

Thanks

Answer 1

No direct one, but you can always:

if ( ! User::where('email', Input::get('email'))->first())
{
    /// email's wrong
}
else
{
    if ( ! Auth::attempt(['email' => Input::get('email'), 'password' => Input::get('password')])
    {
        /// password's wrong
    }
}

If you need to give this information to your user, there's nothing wrong in doing this.