How to enable CORS in Laravel 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PozYTvmgcVE

1. Add middleware
php artisan make:middleware Cors

return $next($request)
->header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
->header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS');

2. Register middleware as a route middleware

3. Use middleware in routes which support CORS

Laravel 5.1 Useful Resources

• Update account password - http://teamnik.org/how-to-update-user-password-in-laravel5/
  


• User ACL with Entrust - http://itsolutionstuff.com/post/laravel-52-user-acl-roles-and-permissions-with-middleware-using-entrust-from-scratch-tutorialexample.html


• Track user last login time - http://coffeecupweb.com/capture-last-login-time-in-laravel-5/
  


• Retain old input & object state with create edit form - https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/code-review/clean-way-to-inject-old-input
  


• Load settings from database -
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32824781/laravel-load-settings-from-database
  https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/l5-best-way-to-load-settings-from-database
  


• Custom Helper -
  http://laravel-recipes.com/recipes/50/creating-a-helpers-file
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28290332/best-practices-for-custom-helpers-on-laravel-5
  


• Cron Jobs
  https://www.sitepoint.com/managing-cronjobs-with-laravel/
  http://www.easylaravelbook.com/blog/2015/01/27/introducing-the-laravel-5-command-scheduler/
  http://blog.mauriziobonani.com/laravel-cron-jobs-on-shared-hosting/

 

Hosting

• Host in a shared server - http://laraveldaily.com/laravel-and-shared-hosting-working-with-ftp-and-phpmyadmin/

Lumen

https://github.com/lucadegasperi/oauth2-server-laravel

http://esbenp.github.io/2015/05/26/lumen-web-api-oauth-2-authentication/

http://mrgott.com/joomla/24-integrate-oauth2-server-into-lumen-to-secure-your-restful-api-with-access-tokens

http://loige.co/developing-a-web-application-with-lumen-and-mysql/