How can Laravel be used to authenticate users for both bot API and web platforms?

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Laravel provides built-in functionality for authentication that can be used to authenticate users for both bot API and web platforms. Here are the steps to use Laravel for authentication:

1. Install Laravel: First, install Laravel by following the official documentation.

2. Set up authentication: Laravel provides built-in authentication scaffolding that can be used to set up authentication quickly. Run the following command to create the authentication controllers, models, and views.

php artisan make:auth

1. Configure authentication: Next, set up the authentication configuration by editing the config/auth.php file. You can define the authentication guards, providers, and passwords.

2. Authenticate users for bot API: To authenticate users for bot API, you can use the API guard. You can create an access token and use it to authenticate API requests. Here is an example code to authenticate API requests using an access token.

public function handle(Request $request, Closure $next)
{
    $user = User::where('api_token', $request->header('Authorization'))->first();

    if (!$user) {
        abort(401, 'Unauthorized');
    }

    Auth::login($user);

    return $next($request);
}

1. Authenticate users for web platform: To authenticate users for the web platform, you can use the web guard. You can use the built-in Auth:: methods to authenticate users for web requests. Here is an example code to authenticate users for web requests.

public function login(Request $request)
{
    $credentials = $request->only('email', 'password');

    if (Auth::attempt($credentials)) {
        return redirect()->intended('dashboard');
    }

    return back()->withErrors([
        'email' => 'The provided credentials do not match our records.',
    ]);
}

By following these steps, you can use Laravel to authenticate users for both bot API and web platforms.