Check user authentication status in controller, allow access to guest and user

Question

I'm using sanctum. I have a controller like this

public function user()
    {
        if (auth('sanctum')->check()) {
            return true;
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    }

The problem is that without the middleware auth:sanctum, the conditional statement always returns false, and once I use this middleware, everything works fine. However, I cannot use this middleware because then the user would have to be logged in, and I want to give both guests and users access. How can I do this? I would like to check in the controller if the user is logged in and if so, for example, be able to return the user's id.

Answer 1

For your question, one option available is to access policies. The scope of the sanctum component is shown in the following example.