How to encrypt laravel 5.2 URL or Routes?

Question

I need to encrypt routes in this URL? Because I do not want user to access URL by changing the item id. For example, user can change /items/1234 to /item/5678. Although item 1234 and 5678 belong to the same user, I still want to restrict the behavior. What I am trying to do is encrypting the routes but I am not sure whether this is a proper way or not. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You can encrypt your url parameter and decrypt it in your controller. You can try this:

In your view: Suppose your parameter is id or more parameter you can encrypt.

<?php
        $parameter =[
            'id' =>1,
        ];
    $parameter= Crypt::encrypt($parameter);
?>
<a href="{{url('/url/',$parameter)}}" target="_blank">a link</a>

Your route will be:

Route::get('/url/{parameter}', 'YourController@methodName');

In your controller, You can decrypt your parameter:

public function methodName($id){
    $data = Crypt::decrypt($id);
  }

You must be yous Crypt namespace in your top of controller

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Crypt;

Note: You can encrypt url parameter with Crypt::encrypt($parameter) and decrypt with Crypt::decrypt($parameter)