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Then, we tell our controller that for every request to one of its actions we want to run the
before filter auth. Now, this controller is completely protected behind your authentication
implementation. You will be unable to access the actions within this controller until you've
successfully logged in. If you try to access one of the controller's actions, you will be redirected
to the login page.
Now, thanks to a combination of Laravel's Auth class and its auth filter, you now have a
properly secured admin site.
Unfortunately, a complete description of Laravel's filter functionality is outside the scope of
this book. Thankfully, Laravel's documentation is a great resource for learning more about
what you can do with filters.
4 – Validation
Laravel provides a Validator class full of functionality to help with validating forms, database
models, or anything that you'd like. The Validator class allows you to pass any input, declare
your own rules, and define your own custom validation messages.
Let's take a look at an example implementation for our create users actions.
public function post_create()
{
// validate input
$rules = array(
'real_name' => 'required|max:50',
'email' => 'required|email|unique:users',
'password' => 'required|min:5',
);
$validation = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules);
if($validation->fails())
{
return Redirect::back()->with_input()
->with_errors($validation);
}
// create a user
$user = new User;
$user->real_name = Input::get('real_name');
$user->email = Input::get('email');
$user->password = Input::get('password');
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