Laravel Api Auth

Laravel gives easy ways to handle api authorization using user based tokens, but sometimes you need to use a single token to give access to your application, especially when you're developing two apps that need to be connected, or perhaps you're in need of connecting Telegram-bot to your app endpoint using webhooks

Laravel-api-auth makes that easy as breathe, no migrations, no models

Installing package

If you're using Laravel prior to 5.5, consider using v0.1 branch

$ composer require erjanmx/laravel-api-auth

Publish the Package configuration

$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Apiauth\Laravel\CAuthServiceProvider"

Using package

Step 1

Change defaults in config/apiauth.php

<?php

return [
    'services' => [

        'MY_APP' => [                          // this is the name of the middleware of route group to be protected
            'tokenName' => 'api_token',        // name of key that will be checked for secret value
            'token' => env('MY_APP_TOKEN'),    // secret value that is retrieved from env vars and needs to be passed in requests in order to get access to your protected urls

            'allowJsonToken' => true,        
            'allowBearerToken' => true,        
            'allowRequestToken' => true,       
        ]
    ],
];

Step 2

• Add your secret value in .env file

// .env

...your other variables

MY_APP_TOKEN=my-secret

Step 3

• Add group with middleware in your routes file

Route::group(['prefix' => 'api', 'middleware' => ['apiauth:MY_APP']], function () { // note the `MY_APP` that should match the name in your config we changed above
    Route::any('/', function () {
        return 'Welcome!';
    });
});

That's it

Your urls within your group are accessible only if valid token provided

• In GET or POST request

• In request header as Authorization Bearer (tokenName is ignored in this case)

• In json raw body

You're free to change token name (api_token by default) in configuration file as well as authorization methods to be checked. Also you can set as many services as you want.