Translate: Laravel: Get Sanctum token by user ID

Question

I'm trying to get the user's Sanctum token based on the user ID, but I'm not able to succeed. The application is a single page application using React Native as the frontend and Laravel as the backend.

I tried the following method but got an empty object.

$user = User::find($request['user_id']);

$tokens = $user->tokens();

This is how I create the token when the user registers:

$user = new User();
$user->name = 'Name';
$user->save();
        
$token = $user->createToken($request->input('device_name'))->plainTextToken;

$user = $user->fresh();

Was the token created correctly? After using createToken, do I need to save it again?

Answer 1

To get the token, you need to add the ->get() function.

The correct code is:

$tokens = $user->tokens()->get();

This is because $user->tokens() returns a query builder object, so you can append all the query builder functions to filter, sort and select tokens.

For example:

$user->tokens()->orderBy('created_at', 'DESC')->first();

Please note that the tokens are stored in the personal_access_tokens table and the foreign key is tokenable_id.