Category "Requests and Input" tricks

Catch all routes and paths using the auth filter. A route validation method is added to the Users model called hasAccess($route) and returns true if the user has that route. If the user doesn't have the route the error message will inform of what access they are missing.

If you have an array like: array( array('key' => 'value'), array('key' => 'anotherValue'), array('key' => 'sameValue'), array('key' => 'sameValue') ); and you want to make sure that you cant have 'key' with same value twice i was searching a native way to do it, but couldn't find one - so this is my solution:

Perform pattern based CSRF filter on all post, put, patch, and delete requests. Just add this code snippet at the top of routes.php

This stumped me for some time and after digging around I found it works great, the uploaded file can be removed from the server as well as the database entry. works well for file sharing and image sharing sites.

A Controller-based solution to add the CSRF filter to all POST requests.

Laravel passes 100% test coverage on Hip Hop Virtual Machine (HHVM) so you might want to try using it to host your next Laravel application. The advantage of HHVM is an increase in speed of executing your PHP scripts and thus boosting your application. This config was provided by Taylor Otwell.

Submit links to a DELETE route with a confirmation box.

Do not trust the client. Safe way to get CSRF token for use in Angular JS. Keeps it as a constant.

If you have an API, which you also use on your site..then you might want to get the data from the API by making an internal request.