User Switcher for Laravel

What is it for?

User switcher is a dev tool that allow to switch between user accounts without providing passwords. This is only for development / QA purpose and will have no effect on a production environment.

Installation

• composer require ... (WIP)
• In config/app.php, add the provider \Benjaminniess\UserSwitcher\UserSwitcherProvider::class to the Application Service Providers list.

Usage

Switch to a user

• Go to https://your-home-url/switchto/1234 or https://your-home-url/switchto/[email protected] where 1234 is an existing user ID and [email protected] is an existing user email.
• You'll be redirected to the home page logged as the given user

Switch back

• (WIP)

Tests

To run the tests, simply run this command at the root folder of your laravel installation

php artisan test packages/benjaminniess/userswitcher

TODO

• Allow configuring the user schema
• Allow enabling on specific environment (staging for example)
• Switch back when user was previously logged
• Plug to the Laravel debug bar
• Publish to packagist