Laravel Simple API Token

This library is to Tokenize your current API Restful very easy. It makes your API more secure.

How this library works :

1. It will create table laravel_api_tokens
2. Insert the token data into it
3. Validate user request with table laravel_api_tokens

Requirements

• Laravel 6, 7, or 8
• PHP 7.4 or 8.x

Installation

Run this command on your root project

composer require fherryfherry/laravel-api-token

Run the migration bellow

php artisan migrate

After installation is done, then run bellow command to export configuration file :

php artisan vendor:publish --provider=FherryFherry\LaravelApiToken\LaravelSimpleApiTokenServiceProvider

Configuration

<?php

return [

    "expiry_unit"=> "day", // day, hour, minute
    "expiry_duration" => 3, // expiry duration by unit

    "token_length"=> 128, // how long token is

    // VALIDATION LEVEL ============================================ //
    // Level 1 = Validate by token only (default)                    //
    // Level 2 = Validate by token and ip address                    //
    // Level 3 = Validate by token, ip address and user agent        //
    //                                                               //
    // Please be careful with validation 2 and 3 because ip address  //
    // can suddenly change. Usually this because user providers      //
    // ============================================================= //
    "validation_level"=> 1,

    "basic_auth_user" => env("BASIC_AUTH_USER"), // user to request token
    "basic_auth_pass" => env("BASIC_AUTH_PASS") // password to request token
];

Setting .ENV

Open the .env file, and paste these bellow on the bottom of file

BASIC_AUTH_USER="example"
BASIC_AUTH_PASS="123456"

You could change its value.

Save User Data Into Token

You should create your own Login API. Then after the login is succeeded you could call this helper. For the first, add these bellow to top of the class

use FherryFherry\LaravelApiToken\Helper\LaravelSimpleApiToken;

Then in your login method would be like these

public function postLogin(Request $request) {
    // ...
    
    if(Auth::attempt($request->except("_token"))) {
        // Then after that call this helper
        LaravelSimpleApiToken::saveLoginData($request, $user->id, $user->name);
        
        // Or if you have a role
        LaravelSimpleApiToken::saveLoginData($request, $user->id, $user->name, $user->role);               
    }
       
    // ...
}

Request Token Endpoint

Give this endpoint to your frontend engineer. (I assume you use artisan serve, instead adjust the base domain)

http://localhost:8080/api/auth/request-token

Add header parameter with Basic Authorization.

How to use Basic Authorization you could refer this document. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Authorization

This API will produce like these bellow :

{
    "status": 1,
    "message": "success",
    "data": {
        "expired_at": "2013-05-05T16:34:42+00:00",
        "access_token": "bG9yZW0gaXBzdW0=",
        "refresh_token": "bG9yZW0gaXBzdW0="
    }
}

Frontend engineer should save the expired_at,access_token,refresh_token value.

Refresh Token Endpoint

This API is to extend the expired time of access_token without request token again. But you will get new access_token,refresh_token,expired_at. The difference with Request Token is you don't need to hit the Login API again.

http://localhost:8080/api/auth/refresh-token

Frontend engineer need to add a Header Parameter with Bearer Authorization

Authorization: Bearer {access_token}

This API will produce like these bellow :

{
    "status": 1,
    "message": "success",
    "data": {
        "expired_at": "2013-05-05T16:34:42+00:00",
        "access_token": "bG9yZW0gaXBzdW0=",
        "refresh_token": "bG9yZW0gaXBzdW0="
    }
}

Frontend engineer should save the expired_at,access_token,refresh_token value. For next header authorization.

Secure Your API With Token

To prevent any user hit your API Without token, so you have to add laravel_api_token middleware to your API Route. Open your API route location (I assume you use routes/api.php)

Route::middleware(['api','laravel_api_token'])->group(function() {
    // place your all api routes here
    // ...
    
});

Frontend engineer need to add a Header Parameter with Bearer Authorization

Authorization: Bearer {access_token}

Get Current User ID

If you would like to get the current user ID, you only need to call this helper

$currentUserID = LaravelSimpleApiToken::getUserId();

Get Current User Name

If you would like to get the current user name, you only need to call this helper

$currentUserName = LaravelSimpleApiToken::getUserName();

Get Current User Role

If you would like to get the current user role, you only need to call this helper

$currentUserRole = LaravelSimpleApiToken::getUserRole();

Get Token Data

For whatever reason sometime you want to see all available column values of current token, you could call this helper

$tokenData = LaravelSimpleApiToken::getTokenData();

Destroy Token

If the user is logging out, you have to call this helper into your logout method at the bottom line is fine. So the frontend is should call the request token API again.

LaravelSimpleApiToken::destroy($request);

Support & Donation

Hi thanks for using my open source project, you could support me via : https://saweria.co/ferryariawan or via https://buymeacoffee.com/ferryariawan

Security Issue

If you found any security issue please contact me at ferdevelop15[at]gmail.com