cresjie/ip-blocker

Laravel IP address blocker

Laravel IP Blocker

Simple and easy to configure laravel ip blocker, _(*1)

Installation via Composer

Add this to your composer.json file, in the require object:, _(*2)

 "cresjie/ip-blocker": "v1.0.0.1"

After that, run composer install to install the package., _(*3)

Add the service provider to app/config/app.php for laravel 4 and config/app.php for laravel 5, within the providers array., _(*4)

 'providers' => array(
    ...
    'Cresjie\IpBlocker\IpBlockerServiceProvider',
)

Configuration

Publish the default config file to your application so you can make modifications., _(*5)

$ php artisan config:publish cresjie/ip-blocker

Add your block IP's to the configuration file:, _(*6)

 app/config/packages/cresjie/ip-blocker/config.php

Handling/Custom View

if the IP was blocked, it would throw Cresjie\IpBlocker\IpBlockerException. you could create a view by just handling the exception like this:, _(*7)

laravel 4

App::error(function(Exception $e){

    switch($e){
        case ($e instanceof \Cresjie\IpBlocker\IpBlockerException):
            return View::make('view-path');
            break;
    }
});

laravel 5

// app/Exceptions/Handler.php

public function render($request, Exception $e)
{
    switch($e){
        case ($e instanceof \Cresjie\IpBlocker\IpBlockerException):
            return View::make('view-path');
            break;
        default:
            return parent::render($request, $e);

    }

    return parent::render($request, $e);
}