Commit 7da624e0 authored by Taylor Otwell's avatar Taylor Otwell

Added better inline docs to the Auth class.

parent 59dab32c
......@@ -10,7 +10,13 @@ class Auth {
/**
* The current user of the application.
*
* If no user is logged in, this variable will be NULL. Otherwise, it will contain
* the result of the "by_id" closure in the authentication configuration file.
*
* However, the user should typically be accessed via the "user" method.
*
* @var object
* @see user()
*/
public static $user;
......@@ -24,7 +30,15 @@ class Auth {
/**
* Determine if the current user of the application is authenticated.
*
* <code>
* if (Auth::check())
* {
* // The user is logged in...
* }
* </code>
*
* @return bool
* @see login
*/
public static function check()
{
......@@ -34,9 +48,16 @@ class Auth {
/**
* Get the current user of the application.
*
* The user will be loaded using the user ID stored in the session.
* To retrieve the user, the user ID stored in the session will be passed to
* the "by_id" closure in the authentication configuration file. The result
* of the closure will be cached and returned.
*
* <code>
* $email = Auth::user()->email;
* </code>
*
* @return object
* @see $user
*/
public static function user()
{
......@@ -54,8 +75,20 @@ class Auth {
* If the user credentials are valid. The user ID will be stored in the session
* and will be considered "logged in" on subsequent requests to the application.
*
* The password passed to the method should be plain text, as it will be hashed
* by the Hash class when authenticating.
*
* <code>
* if (Auth::login('test@gmail.com', 'secret'))
* {
* // The credentials are valid...
* }
* </code>
*
* @param string $username
* @param string $password
* @return bool
* @see Hash::check()
*/
public static function login($username, $password)
{
......@@ -75,7 +108,10 @@ class Auth {
}
/**
* Logout the user of the application.
* Log the user out of the application.
*
* The user ID will be removed from the session and the user will no longer
* be considered logged in on subsequent requests.
*
* @return void
*/
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