My Middleware redirects to home page everytime - laravel

Question

I have made a quiz when the user unlocks the quiz then only the user can access the quiz page suppose 127.0.0.1:8000/quiz1. But I have unlocked the quiz, then too my middleware takes me to /home page.
I have tried this logic but it didn't worked.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Middleware;
use Closure;
use App\Theme_User;
use App\User;
use Auth;
class UnlockMiddleware
{
/**
* Handle an incoming request.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #param \Closure $next
* #return mixed
*/
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
$user = auth()->user()->id;
$theme_user = Theme_User::find($user);
if($theme_user->unlocked == 1){
return $next($request);
}
else {
return redirect('/login');
}
}
}
In my Theme_User there is user_id and unlocked stored but that is not working for me.

Answer 1

You need to check if they are logged in first, like so with \Auth::check()...
/**
* Handle an incoming request.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #param \Closure $next
* #return mixed
*/
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
if(\Auth::check()) {
$user = \Auth::user()->id;
$theme_user = Theme_User::find($user);
if($theme_user->unlocked == 1){
return $next($request);
}
// Logged in but not unlocked
}
else {
return redirect('/login');
}
}
I have no idea what the logic is meant to be behind logged in but not unlocked, you'll need to fill that gap

Answer 2

It might be worth checking if user is logged in before trying to get user id from auth.
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
if(auth()->check()) {
$user = auth()->user()->id;
$theme_user = Theme_User::find($user);
if($theme_user->unlocked == 1){
return $next($request);
}else{
return redirect('whatever_page_if_user_is_logged_in_but_not_unlocked');
}
}else {
//this only happens if user is not logged in
return redirect('/login');
}
}