Laravel 5.4 Authentication to a different table not working - laravel

Question

In my laravel application, I need to make a login to customers table. So, I made a CustomerLoginController.
My CustomerLoginController looks like:
class CustomerLoginController extends Controller
{
public function login(Request $request)
{
// Validate the data
$this->validate($request,[
'email' => 'required|email',
'password' => 'required'
]);
$credentials=[
'email' => $request->get('email'),
'password' => $request->get('password')
];
// Log The Customer In
if (Auth::guard('customer')->attempt(['email'=> $request['email'],'password' => $request['password']]))
{
// If Authentication passed...
dd($credentials);
return redirect(route('first'));
}
// If Authentication not successful, redirect back to login form with the inputs
return redirect()->back()
->withInput($request->only($this->username()));
}
public function username()
{
return 'email';
}
I have setup the customer guard and providers in the config/Auth.php. My config/Auth.php file:
'guards' => [
'web' => [
'driver' => 'session',
'provider' => 'users',
],
'customer' => [
'driver' => 'session',
'provider' => 'customers',
],
'api' => [
'driver' => 'token',
'provider' => 'users',
],
],
'providers' => [
'users' => [
'driver' => 'eloquent',
'model' => App\User::class,
],
'customers' => [
'driver' => 'eloquent',
'model' => App\Models\Customer::class,
],
],
The Problem is that even when the credentials are correct the login attempt is always unsuccessful.
What am I missing?

Answer 1

And what about Customer Model.
it should extend Authenticatable same as User Model.
class User extends Authenticatable
{
/* your code */
}
class Customer extends Authenticatable
/* your code */
{
}
and Don't Forgot to use Authenticatable in Model. :)
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;