How to use laravel Auth::user() outside laravel and pass data in custom php?

php.php

The solution above for 5.2 should still work. In 5.5+ you just need to change bootstrap/autoload.php to vendor/autoload.php.

<?php

require '/path/to/laravel/vendor/autoload.php';
$app = require_once '/path/to/laravel/bootstrap/app.php';

$app->make('Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel')
    ->handle(Illuminate\Http\Request::capture());

// An instance of the Laravel app should be now at your fingertip ;-)

...

$isAuthorized = Auth::check();

?>

old

<?php
function auth() { 
  require getcwd() . '/../../../../bootstrap/autoload.php';
  $app = require_once getcwd() . '/../../../../bootstrap/app.php';

  $kernel = $app->make('Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel');

  $response = $kernel->handle(
    $request = Illuminate\Http\Request::capture()
  );

  $id = $app['encrypter']->decrypt($_COOKIE[$app['config']['session.cookie']]);
  $app['session']->driver()->setId($id);
  $app['session']->driver()->start();

  if(!$app['auth']->check()) return false;

  $role = $app['auth']->user()->role->slug;

  return($role == 'admin' || $role == 'redac');

}