Laravel trying to get user id to store into posts table
<pre><code>public function store(Request $request)
{
   $this-&gt;validate($request, array(
       'title' =&gt; 'required|max:255|min:2',
       'slug' =&gt; 'required|alpha_dash|unique:articles,slug',
       'category_id' =&gt; 'required|integer',
       'content' =&gt; 'required|min:2'
   ));

   $article = new Article;
   $article-&gt;title = $request-&gt;title;
   $article-&gt;slug = $request-&gt;slug;
   $article-&gt;category_id = $request-&gt;category_id;

   $article-&gt;content = $request-&gt;content;
   $article-&gt;save();

   Session::flash('success', 'Your article has been published.');
   return redirect()-&gt;route('article.show', $article-&gt;id);
}
</code></pre>

<p>There is a user_id column on the articles table, </p>

<p>This is my store function but when I create the post I am looking for a way to store the logged in user id to the user_id column in the articles table.</p>