I have the username and password passed via a post request from my view to the controller. The controller responsible for handling the post request public function postLoginRequest $request { $this->validate$request, [ 'username' => 'required', 'password' => 'required' ]; if !Authattempt[ 'username' => $request['username'], 'password' => $request['password'] ] { return redirect->back->with['fail' => 'invalid username or password']; } return redirect->route' } The problem is I keep getting 'fail' message 'invalid username or password'. I looked at the table inside the phpmyadmin, and the username and password were pretty simple username Admin & password 12345. This is the database for the admins table class CreateAdminsTable extends Migration { public function up { Schemacreate'admins', function Blueprint $table { $table->increments'id'; $table->timestamps; $table->string'username'->unique; $table->string'password'; $table->rememberToken; }; } public function down { Schemadrop'admins'; } } For reference, I am using Laravel update 1 The users are created via the registration controller, which stores the username and password in the database. Here is the controller public function postRegisterRequest $request { $admin = new Admin; $this->validate$request, [ 'username' => 'requireduniqueadminsmax30min3', 'password' => 'requiredmin5', 'password_confirm' => 'required' ]; $password = $request['password']; $passwordConfirm = $request['password_confirm']; if $password !== $passwordConfirm { return redirect->back->with['fail' => 'password fields do not match!']; } $hashedPassword = password_hash$password, PASSWORD_BCRYPT; $admin->username = $request['username']; $admin->password = $hashedPassword; $admin->save; return redirect->route'index'->with['success' => 'Successfully created account!']; }