How to encrypt laravel 5.2 URL or Routes?

Question

I need to encrypt routes in this URL? Because I do not want user to access URL by changing the item id. For example, user can change /items/1234 to /item/5678. Although item

Answer 1

One way you could mitigate this issue would be to use Universally Unique ID's (UUID).

You will no longer have the issue of auto-increment database crawling and a user cannot alter URL's to get different data.

You can quite easily change your database to support this in your migrations by changing your id column from

this:

$table->increments('id');

to this:

$table->uuid('id')->primary();

Your model can then be edited to support the non incrementing primary key by adding the following to your class:

protected $incrementing = false;