Laravel 4 CSRF on all POST requests

Question

Been looking into laravel lately, and trying to figure out the CSRF protection that they have. However, i can't get it work. Is there any way i can validate all post request submitted, with the CSRF filter? I've seen that the laravel system has:

    App::before(function($request)
{
    //
});

How would i be able to use this with the CSRF filter? Been trying a few different things like

App::before(function($request)
{
    Route::filter('csrf','post');
});

But i'm probably way off here.. how would this work? or is it even possible doing it this way?

Answer 1

You can use route groups. This will apply the specified options to any routes defined in a group:

Route::group(array('before' => 'csrf'), function()
{
    Route::post('/', function()
    {
    // Has CSRF Filter
    });

    Route::post('user/profile', function()
    {
    // Has CSRF Filter
    });

    Route::post(....);
});

For certain routes, or if grouping isn't what you want, you can also use a pattern filter:

//all routes beginning with admin, sent via a post http request will use the csrf filter
Route::when('admin/*', 'csrf', array('post'));

NOTE: this code would go in your routes.php file