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Laravel Advanced Security

One of the most optimized plugins for securing the Laravel users accounts.

This is a fresh Laravel plugin which gets security data from your users and gives you the chance to store it crypted or decrypted, with no stress. Educational purposes only / other purposes but on your own liability.

Instalation

First, you have to install the package using composer in your project root folder:

composer require robertseghedi/laravel-advanced-security

Then, you have to add the provider to your config/app.php like that:

// your providers

RobertSeghedi\LAS\LASProvider::class,

Run the migrate command in order to add the secure-logs table

php artisan migrate

Information

Command name	What it does
LAS::ip()	Gets the authenticated user's IP address
LAS::purify($data)	Purifies some string
LAS::os()	Gets the authenticated user's operating system
LAS::browser()	Gets the authenticated user's browser
LAS::file_size($kb)	Transforms numbered KB to 100 GB
LAS::password($length)	Generates random numbered-lettered password in the mentioned length - default is 10
LAS::pin($length)	Generates a custom PIN in the mentioned length - default is 4
LAS::ssl()	Returns if the actual site is secured or not (SSL)
LAS::log($user, $text)	Inserts an encrypted log with text to a user
LAS::logs($user, $results, $time)	Efficiently fetches & caches user logs based on the mentioned criteria
LAS::all_logs($results, $time)	Efficiently fetches & caches all the secure logs

Usage

Now you can start using the package.

1. Include it in your controller

use RobertSeghedi\LAS\Models\LAS;

2. Start using the tools

public function add_post(Request $req)
{
    $post = new Post();
    $post->title = $req->input('title');
    $post->description = $req->input('description');
    $post->user = Auth::user()->id;
    $post->ip = LAS::ip(); // grabs the user IP
    $post->browser = LAS::browser(); // grabs the user browser
    $post->os = LAS::os(); // grabs the user OS
    $saved_post = $post->save();
    if($saved_post) return redirect()->back()->with('success', 'Article posted.');
}

public function insert_log($user_id = null)
{
    $user = User::find($user_id);
    $log = LAS::log($user_id, "$user->name joined the chat.");
    if($log) return redirect()->back();
}

3. Do whatever you want with the data

Follow this package for future updates

robertseghedi / laravel-advanced-security

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