Unencrypted cookie in Laravel

Question

I need to read a cookie in JS set by my Laravel app. Is there a way to do this in Laravel (as opposed to setting it directly through PHP) without overriding classes?

Answer 1

See the EncryptCookies Middleware - this allows you to set the exceptions; that is, cookies that are not to be encrypted.

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Illuminate\Cookie\Middleware\EncryptCookies as BaseEncrypter;

class EncryptCookies extends BaseEncrypter
{
    /**
     * The names of the cookies that should not be encrypted.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $except = [
        'my_cookie'
    ];
}