Laravel manual login function
Login function needs user of type Authenticatable and you just given email which is string thats why you get this error, Either use Auth::loginUsingId($id);
$user = User::where('email','=',$email)->first(); Auth::loginUsingId($user->id, TRUE);Or just
Auth::login($user);
Instead of this
Auth::login($userMail->email, TRUE);
Use this
Auth::login($user->id, TRUE);
$email = $request->email; $password = md5($request->password); if ($request->remember_me == 1) { $cookie = Cookie::queue('username', $email, time() + 31536000); } else { $cookie = Cookie::queue('username', '', time() - 100); } $user = DB::table('tbl_adminuser')->where('email_address', $email)->where('password', $password)->first(); $request->session()->put('userData', $user);=> You can manual login like this in laravel