How to encrypt laravel 5.2 URL or Routes?

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)

One way you could mitigate this issue would be to use Universally Unique ID's (UUID).

You will no longer have the issue of auto-increment database crawling and a user cannot alter URL's to get different data.

You can quite easily change your database to support this in your migrations by changing your id column from

this:

$table->increments('id');

to this:

$table->uuid('id')->primary();

Your model can then be edited to support the non incrementing primary key by adding the following to your class:

protected $incrementing = false;

You can encrypt the route in your controller while redirecting, using

\Crypt::encrypt(product_id)

and on the product page you can decrypt the product ID from the URL using

$product_id = \Crypt::decrypt($url_parameter)

that's the best possible way.

But there will be some chances of exception if the user Edit's the Product ID parameter from the URL which you will need to handle.