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jalallinux/laravel-shield
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A HTTP basic auth middleware for Laravel

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🔑 Laravel Shield
================

[](#-laravel-shield)

> A [HTTP basic auth](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication) middleware for Laravel.

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```
// Use on your routes.
Route::get('/', ['middleware' => 'shield'], function () {
    // Your protected page.
});

// Use it within your controller constructor.
$this->middleware('shield');

// Use specific user credentials.
$this->middleware('shield:jalallinux');
```

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Require this package, with [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/), in the root directory of your project.

```
composer require jalallinux/laravel-shield
```

Add the middleware to the `$routeMiddleware` array in your `Kernel.php` file.

```
'shield' => \JalalLinuX\Shield\ShieldMiddleware::class,
```

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

Laravel Shield requires configuration. To get started, you'll need to publish all vendor assets:

```
php artisan vendor:publish --provider JalalLinuX\\Shield\\ShieldServiceProvider
```

This will create a `config/shield.php` file in your app that you can modify to set your configuration. Also, make sure you check for changes to the original config file in this package between releases.

#### HTTP Basic Auth Credentials

[](#http-basic-auth-credentials)

The user credentials which are used when logging in with [HTTP basic authentication](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication).

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

To protect your routes with the shield you can add it to the routes file.

```
Route::get('/', ['middleware' => 'shield'], function () {
    // Your protected page.
});
```

You can also add the shield middleware to your controllers constructor.

```
$this->middleware('shield');
```

The middleware accepts one optional parameter to specify which user credentials to compared with.

```
$this->middleware('shield:jalallinux');
```

To add a new user, you probably want to use hashed credentials. Hashed credentials can be generated with the [`password_hash()`](https://secure.php.net/manual/en/function.password-hash.php) function in the terminal:

```
php -r "echo password_hash('my-secret-passphrase', PASSWORD_DEFAULT);"
```

Then copy and paste the hashed credentials to the `.env` environment file.

```
SHIELD_USER=your-hashed-user
SHIELD_PASSWORD=your-hashed-password
```

###  Health Score

32

—

LowBetter than 72% of packages

Maintenance27

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 65.9% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~71 days

Recently: every ~6 days

Total

7

Last Release

800d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ddef4e15a6bda9c060f6e33ccfd0a268895bfb664936f9191a836de4d528d684?d=identicon)[jalallinux](/maintainers/jalallinux)

---

Top Contributors

[![jalallinux](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/37062636?v=4)](https://github.com/jalallinux "jalallinux (29 commits)")[![dependabot[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/29110?v=4)](https://github.com/dependabot[bot] "dependabot[bot] (9 commits)")[![github-actions[bot]](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/in/15368?v=4)](https://github.com/github-actions[bot] "github-actions[bot] (6 commits)")

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Tags

httpmiddlewarelaravelauthbasicshieldlaravel-shieldjalallinux

###  Code Quality

TestsPest

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