Best practice for returning authenticated users in laravel

Question

I had a bit confusion in authentication, i'm a Laravel user since version 5.2. But in this scenario on version 5.6, I create a middleware that checks the authenticated users, the logout function was perfect but, i try to access the page with my middleware, it returns

Trying to get property 'name' of non-object

Because i had a function that fetches the name of Authenticated User.

How can i handle this scenario?

My Middleware code:

   public function handle($request, Closure $next) {
    if (Auth::check()) {
     return $next($request);
    }
    return redirect()->route('login');
}

In the page:

{{Auth::user()->name}}

Thanks

Answer 1

You get this error because the current user is not authenticated. You can use the optional() helper:

{{ optional(auth()->user())->name }}

Or:

{{ auth()->check() ? auth()->user()->name : 'Please login' }}