Authentication views for Laravel 5.1 - authentication

Question

Laravel 5.1 has just been released, I would like to know how could I tell the AuthController to get the login & register view from a custom directory? the default is: resources/views/auth...
The trait AuthenticateAndRegisterUsers only has this:
trait AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers
{
use AuthenticatesUsers, RegistersUsers {
AuthenticatesUsers::redirectPath insteadof RegistersUsers;
}
}

Answer 1

The code you're showing there only fills one function: it tells our trait to use the redirectPath from the AuthenticatesUsers trait rather than the one from RegistersUsers.
If you check inside the AuthenticatesUsers trait instead, you will find a getLogin() method. By default, this one is defined as
public function getLogin()
{
return view('auth.login');
}
All you have to do to get another view is then simply overwriting the function in your controller and returning another view. If you for some reason would like to load your views from a directory other than the standard resources/Views, you can do so by calling View::addLocation($path) (you'll find this defined in the Illuminate\View\FileViewFinder implementation of the Illuminate\View\ViewFinderInterface.
Also, please note that changing the auth views directory will do nothing to change the domain or similar. That is dependent on the function name (as per the definition of Route::Controller($uri, $controller, $names=[]). For more details on how routing works, I'd suggest just looking through Illuminate\Routing\Router.

Answer 2

for those who is using laravel 5.2, you only need to override property value of loginView
https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/5.2/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Auth/AuthenticatesUsers.php
public function showLoginForm()
{
$view = property_exists($this, 'loginView')
? $this->loginView : 'auth.authenticate';
if (view()->exists($view)) {
return view($view);
}
return view('auth.login');
}
so to override the login view path, you only need to do this
class yourUserController {
use AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers, ThrottlesLogins;
.....
protected $loginView = 'your path';
}