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Tadeáš Jílek
Tadeáš Jílek

Reputation: 2833

Laravel - where to store site config data

I have got option to disable/enable registration of users. Where should i store this data? What is the best practise?

I think, that store this little data in DB is not good solution.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2393

Answers (3)

Gaurav Dave
Gaurav Dave

Reputation: 7474

In that case, you can just add this line inside your registration function

return redirect()->back();

So, that user will not be able to see registration page. and when you want to enable it again, you can comment the above line and you're good to go.

Upvotes: 2

Ajay Kumar Ganesh
Ajay Kumar Ganesh

Reputation: 1852

Hope you know the concept of Environment Variables

In Laravel its stored in .env.php file

<?php

return [
    'user_registration'  => 'enable/disable'
];

?>

You can retrieve the value as 

$_ENV['user_registration']

And manipulate the function accordingly. For ex. if enable then show the form else hide it from Views

Documentation:

http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/configuration#environment-configuration

Upvotes: 4

Mysteryos
Mysteryos

Reputation: 5791

Ideally, you would want to flip the switch on registration of users on an admin panel. I.e, create a user interface and set a value in a table somewhere in a far away database.

The easiest way however, is simply to create a config file.

My laravel deployments come with a 'website' config, where i place all the website's related configuration values in it.

Steps:

  1. Create a configuration file: config/website.php

  2. In the website.php file:

    return [ 'registration' => true ];

  3. In your controllers, simply add if(\Config::get('website.registration')) to check whether user registration is on/off.

Source: http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/configuration

Upvotes: 1

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