Question: How is it different from loginUsingId

[sarfraznawaz2005]

How is this package special because we can already login somebody else using auth()->loginUsingId() method ?

Thanks

[MarceauKa]

It's not an issue :)

Some points:

• How do you know how to restore the original user? The logic quite simple but the package is here to simplify the process.
• Controller scaffolding.
• Blades directives.
• Custom events.
• Middleware.
• Extensible

There's also some specific scenarios:

• When you're sending custom analytics dimensions, ad tags or other marketing stuff you probably don't want to keep them when impersonating. You can use blade directives.
• Events can be used to inject specific actions when taking and leaving the impersonation.
• Admin model is different from User model.

But the main usage for us; we are implementing user impersonation on each of our Laravel projects (4 ~ 6 / month). We're smart and we don't want to repeat boring stuff...

[sarfraznawaz2005]

@MarceauKa makes lots of sense, that explanation must be on top of package intro/docs so others don't get confused too :)

[MarceauKa]

@sarfraznawaz2005 Point! I keep the issue opened.
Ps: This package was a pair programming training with my associate :)

[preeteshjain]

I second @sarfraznawaz2005 's comment. The concept behind this needs to be at the top. I was looking for same information. I had to sort the issues from Old to New to get here. 😛 Please add this on the top of README.