Laravel config does not respect the order Auth Guards is registered

[steffanhalv]

Laravel Version

11.43.0

PHP Version

8.3.17

Database Driver & Version

MySQL 8.2

Description

Bug

When defining guards after migrating from Laravel 10 to 11, the config does no longer respect the order it was defined.

This creates trouble for us as Laravel Nova Impersonation selects auth guard based on the ordering of the auth guards where session driver is set & provider is user, and web is automatically moved to the top of the array.

Solution

Laravel should respect the ordering it was defined, it should also be possible to unregister the web guard.
Also Laravel Nova should not 'guess' the auth guard like this, so I post an issue there as well.

Related issue: #50934

Steps To Reproduce

config/auth.php

'guards' => [
        'api' => [
            'driver' => 'jwt',
            'provider' => 'customer',
        ],

        'nova' => [
            'driver' => 'session',
            'provider' => 'users',
        ],

        'web' => [
            'driver' => 'session',
            'provider' => 'users',
        ],
    ]

Result

"guards": {
  "web":{
    "driver":"session",
    "provider":"users"
  },
  "api":{
    "driver":"jwt",
    "provider":"customer"
  },
  "nova":{
    "driver":"session",
    "provider":"users"
  },
}

Related Laravel Nova issue: laravel/nova-issues#6796

[crynobone]

Hey there, thanks for reporting this issue.

We'll need more info and/or code to debug this further. Can you please create a repository with the command below, commit the code that reproduces the issue as one separate commit on the main/master branch and share the repository here?

Please make sure that you have the latest version of the Laravel installer in order to run this command. Please also make sure you have both Git & the GitHub CLI tool properly set up.

laravel new bug-report --github="--public"

Do not amend and create a separate commit with your custom changes. After you've posted the repository, we'll try to reproduce the issue.

Thanks!

[steffanhalv]

@crynobone Here you go https://github.com/steffanhalv/laravel-config-bug

[crynobone]

Duplicate of laravel/nova-issues#6796

[steffanhalv]

Actually it is not a duplicate but two different problems .. Problem here is that laravel does not respect the order of the auth guards and in the other issue, the problem is that laravel nova does not respect the nova auth guard defined in nova config on impersonation. But they relate for sure.