php - Laravel 5 - After login redirect back to previous page

Question

I have a page with a some content on it and a comments section. Comments can only be left by users who are signed in so I have added a login form to the page for users to sign in with (this only shows if they are not already logged in).

The problem I have is that when the user signs in they get redirected back to the home page and not the page they were previously on.

I have not changed the login method from the out of the box set-up.

Can anyone suggest a simple way to set the redirect url. My thoughts are that it would be good to be able to set it in the form.

Answer 1

Solution for laravel 5.3:

In loginController overwrite the showLoginForm() function as this one:

public function showLoginForm()
{
    if(!session()->has('url.intended'))
    {
        session(['url.intended' => url()->previous()]);
    }
    return view('auth.login');    
}

It will set the "url.intended" session variable, that is the one that laravel uses to look for the page which you want to be redirected after the login, with the previous url.

It also checks if the variable has been set, in order to avoid the variable to be set with the login url if the user submit the form with an error.