Laravel's Contextual Attributes

Are you tired of constantly fetching the current user with request()->user(), auth()->user() or passing the Request object to every controller method that needs it?

Laravel 11, with its continued support for PHP 8.1's attribute syntax, offers a more streamlined approach: by simply using the #[CurrentUser] attribute, you can directly inject the authenticated user into your controller methods:

use App\Models\User;
use Illuminate\Container\Attributes\CurrentUser;

class AuthController
{
    public function me(#[CurrentUser] User $user): User
    {
        return $user;
    }
}

A Deeper Dive: Laravel Attributes

And if you didn't know, there's a whole world of other attributes waiting to be discovered! This blog post focused on contextual attributes, namely CurrentUser, but for all the available PHP attributes you can use in your Laravel project, check out this blog post:

All Laravel PHP Attributes at Your Disposal

PHP attributes are a great way to add metadata to your classes, methods, and properties. Laravel provides a bunch of them out of the box, you can use in your applications.

.cls-1{isolation:isolate;}.cls-2{fill:#0f1b61;}CRChristoph Rumpel