Logging out via a link in Laravel - laravel

Question

I have a "Logout" link in my top navigation bar. I'm wondering how I can make it so that while I'm logged in, it'll log me out when I click on it and return me to the homepage.
To be specific, what changes to which files do I make in Laravel? Also, what code do I need to write in the view, which currently contains just HTML, to trigger this?

Answer 1

When you run php artisan make:auth, the default app.php in Laravel 5.5 does it like this:
<a href="{{ route('logout') }}" onclick="event.preventDefault(); document.getElementById('logout-form').submit();">
Logout
</a>
<form id="logout-form" action="{{ route('logout') }}" method="POST" style="display: none;">
{{ csrf_field() }}
</form>

Answer 2

Edited 28/12/2019: It's work, but This answer contains a serious security issue. Please consider before using it. The Answer by Lucas Bustamante maybe a better choice. Refer to the comment section of this answer.
1) if you are using the auth scaffold that laravel contains. You can do this, in your navigation bar add this:
logout
then add this to your web.php file
Route::get('/logout', '\App\Http\Controllers\Auth\LoginController#logout');
Done. This will logout you out and redirect to homepage. To get the auth scaffold, from command line, cd into your project root directory and run
php artisan make:auth
2) add this to your navigation bar:
logout
then add this in your web.php file
Route::get('/logout', 'YourController#logout');
then in the YourController.php file, add this
public function logout () {
//logout user
auth()->logout();
// redirect to homepage
return redirect('/');
}
Done.
Read:
https://mattstauffer.co/blog/the-auth-scaffold-in-laravel-5-2
https://www.cloudways.com/blog/laravel-login-authentication/

Answer 3

Use the logout() method:
auth()->logout();
Or:
Auth::logout();
To log users out of your application, you may use the logout method on the Auth facade. This will clear the authentication information in the user's session.

Answer 4

if you want to use jQuery instead of JavaScript:
<a href="javascript:void" onclick="$('#logout-form').submit();">
Logout
</a>
<form id="logout-form" action="{{ route('logout') }}" method="POST" style="display: none;">
#csrf
</form>

Answer 5

As the accepted answer mentions that logging out via GET has side effects you should use the default POST route already created by Laravel auth.
Simply create a little form and submit it via link or button HTML tag:
<form action="{{ route('logout') }}" method="POST">
#csrf
<button type="submit">
{{ __('Logout') }}
</button>
</form>

Answer 6

If you use guard you can logout using this line of code :
Auth::guard('you-guard')->logout();

Answer 7

in laravel 8.x
#csrf
<x-jet-dropdown-link href="{{ route('logout') }}"
onclick="event.preventDefault();
this.closest('form').submit();">
{{ __('Logout') }}
</x-jet-dropdown-link>
</form>