Socialite - how to get a access token from current user who is logged in using facebook

Question

I am new to Laravel and web coding. I set up facebook login system using Socialite. Now I can't figure out, how do I get this logged user in another controller/method.

Answer 1

What Version of Laravel are you using. I'm going to presume its the latest. Laravel provides you with Auth allowing you to use it pretty much anywhere as long as you reference it. At the top of your Controller add.

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Auth;

and to reference it just use the $user = Auth::user();

Here is the Laravel 5.3 Documentation that has all the information you need. Laravel is very well documented. Authentication