Share Laravel 5.1 session and check authentication from Moxiemanager.

Plugin.php

<?php

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Sharing Laravel's session and checking authentication
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Customized Moxiemanager plugin for use in our Laravel App. We use a custom
| External authentication module, but you get the gist (ha ha) of it.
| Put the Plugin.php file in moxiemanager/plugins/LaravelAuthenticator
| and set the following in moxiemanager's config.php:
|
| $moxieManagerConfig['authenticator'] = 'LaravelAuthenticator';
|
| The following code is tested with Laravel 5.1
|
| Last update: 2015-11-05
|
*/

require '../../../../bootstrap/autoload.php';
$app = require_once '../../../../bootstrap/app.php';
$app->make('Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel')
    ->handle(Illuminate\Http\Request::capture());


class MOXMAN_LaravelAuthenticator_Plugin implements MOXMAN_Auth_IAuthenticator {

    public function authenticate(MOXMAN_Auth_User $user) {

        $config = MOXMAN::getConfig();

        if (Auth::check()) {
            $laravel_user = Auth::user();
            if ($laravel_user->patron_code == 'STAFF') {
                $config->replaceVariable("user", $laravel_user->id);
                return true;
            } else {
                return false;
            }
        } else {
            return false;
        }

        // Catch all, default to false.
        return false;

    }
}

MOXMAN::getAuthManager()->add("LaravelAuthenticator", new MOXMAN_LaravelAuthenticator_Plugin());

You should check out https://gist.github.com/jblyberg/0368a3467a604668c746 for the original gist.