A Comprehensive Tutorial on Implementing Google Login in a Laravel Application

Steps for Google Authentication Login in Laravel

Let's begin..

Step-1 Firstly, you need to check whether your system has a laravel project or not. If not, then you can download it by using the below-mentioned command.

Run this command in Command Prompt:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel withgoogleLogin

This command will help you to successfully download in your system.

Step-2 Once you download a laravel project, it's time to install the socialite package. Are you thinking how?

To download the socialite package you can run this command-

composer require laravel/socialite

After downloading the socialite package, you need to add providers and aliases in the config file. Now open config/app.php file and incorporate the service provider and alias. Here is the screenshot of folder directories :

add these line in config/app.php

'providers' => [

    Laravel\Socialite\SocialiteServiceProvider::class,

],

'aliases' => [

    'Socialite' => Laravel\Socialite\Facades\Socialite::class,

],

Step-3 Now, it's time to create a google client id and secret id. Say if you don't have a google app account, it's time to create one from here- Google Developers Console.

add http://127.0.0.1:8000/ url in callback input

Step-4

add routes in web.php

Route::get('/auth/google', [HomeController::class, 'redirectToGoogle']);
Route::get('/auth/google/callback', [HomeController::class, 'handleGoogleCallback']);

Step-5

add function to HomeController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Models\User;
use Laravel\Socialite\Facades\Socialite;
use Auth;

class HomeController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Create a new controller instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        // $this->middleware('auth');
    }

    /**
     * Show the application dashboard.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Contracts\Support\Renderable
     */

    public function redirectToGoogle()
    {
        return Socialite::driver('google')->redirect();
    }

    public function handleGoogleCallback()
    {
        $user = Socialite::driver('google')->user();
        // $user contains user details obtained from Google

        // auth()->login($user);

        dd($user);

        // You can now create or authenticate the user in your application
    }




}

now run laravel server

php artisan serve

and open this url

http://127.0.0.1:8000/auth/google