In Laravel 5, How to disable VerifycsrfToken middleware for specific route?

In Laravel 5 this has chagned a bit. Now you can simply add the routes you want to exclude from csrftoken verification, in $except array of the class

'VerifyCsrfToken' (\app\Http\Middleware\VerifyCsrfToken.php):

class VerifyCsrfToken extends BaseVerifier
{
    protected $except = [
        // Place your URIs here
    ];
}

Examples:

1. If you are using a route group:

Route::group(array('prefix' => 'api/v2'), function()
{
    Route::post('users/valid','UsersController@valid');
});

Your $except array looks like:

protected $except = ['api/v2/users/valid'];

2. If you are using a simple route

Route::post('users/valid','UsersController@valid');

Your $except array looks like:

protected $except = ['users/valid'];

3. If you want to exclude all routes under main route (users in this case)

Your $except array looks like:

protected $except = ['users/*'];

see: http://laravel.com/docs/master/routing#csrf-excluding-uris

If you are using version 5.2 then in: app/Http/Middleware/VerifyCsrfToken.php you can add the route to the attribute: protected $except.

For example:

protected $except = [
    'users/get_some_info',
];

After you perform this change, make sure you add the route in your routes.php.

CSRF is enabled by default on all Routes in Laravel 5, you can disable it for specific routes by modifying app/Http/Middleware/VerifyCsrfToken.php

//app/Http/Middleware/VerifyCsrfToken.php

//add an array of Routes to skip CSRF check
private $openRoutes = ['free/route', 'free/too'];

//modify this function
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        //add this condition 
    foreach($this->openRoutes as $route) {

      if ($request->is($route)) {
        return $next($request);
      }
    }

    return parent::handle($request, $next);
  }

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