How to install laravel passport (api) in laravel 11.x

Introduction to Laravel 11 API Passport Authentication

Laravel 11 provides a world best framework for building APIs, and Passport is a powerful package that adds OAuth2 authentication to Laravel applications. In this blog post, we will teach how to set up and configure Passport for API authentication step by step for apply seurity in laravel 11.

 

1. Install Laravel Project

Install Laravel Project via Composer. Run the following command in your terminal: 

composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel-passport-api

2. Install Package Passport to laravel

Install Passport package via Composer. Run the following command in your terminal: 

composer require laravel/passport

After the installation is complete, you need to run the Passport migrations  for storing OAuth2 tokens and clients. 

2.1 Preblem Solve to install this require package need to enable extension in php.ini

3. Running Migrations

To run all of your outstanding migrations, execute the migrate Artisan command:

php artisan migrate

 4. Configuring Passport

After complete the  migrations , you need to install Passport by running the following command:

php artisan install:api --passport

 

5. Configure User Model

After that go to the user model  add the name space at the top add come code:

use Laravel\Passport\HasApiTokens;

add  HasAipTokens in class User

         HasApiTokens

6. Configure App Service Provider

To make use of Passport’s authentication routes, you need to add the Passport routes within your AppServiceProvider.php file:

use Laravel\Passport\Passport;

Passport::ignoreRoutes();

7. Configure API Auth

After that you have to go to config/auth.php file and you should find the guard and add api passport i have written below .

 'api' => [

            'driver' => 'passport',

            'provider' => 'users',

        ],

8. Create API Controller 

Create the Controller using following Command :

php artisan make:controller Api/AuthController

9. Configure file AuthController.php

After that go to the controller and open the file AuthController.php and replace these codes below. 

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Api;

use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

use App\Models\User;

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash;

class AuthController extends Controller

{

public function register(Request $request)

{

$registerdData = $request->validate([

'name' => 'required|max:55',

'email' => 'email|required|unique:users',

'password' => 'required|confirmed'

]);

$user = User::create($registerdData);

$accessToken = $user->createToken('authToken')->accessToken;

return response(['user' => $user, 'access_token' => $accessToken], 201);

}

public function login(Request $request)

{

$loginData = $request->validate([

'email' => 'required|string|email',

'password' => 'required|string',

]);

if (!auth()->attempt($loginData)) {

return response()->json(['message' => 'Invalid credentials'], 401);

}

$user = auth()->user();

$accessToken = $user->createToken('authToken')->accessToken;

return response()->json([

'user' => $user,

'access_token' => $accessToken,

]);

}

}

 

10. Install API to Laravel

you have to install API routing using the install:api

php artisan install:api

 11. Implement API Rout 

implement the routes api.php replace following code

use App\Http\Controllers\Api\AuthController;

Route::post('register', [AuthController::class, 'register']);

Route::post('login', [AuthController::class, 'login']);