Laravel limiting access to route

Question

I am trying to implement a basic image fetch system for my website. Already created a route that returns me the image.

what concerns me is that i want that route to be only accessible by certain controllers.

Tried to search it and found out passport might be viable option but it's pretty complex for this app. Are there any possible options ?

EDIT: Sorry for providing insufficient information. I want the route to be accessible only by CONTROLLERS, not by anyone who enters the route url to address bar. Like using it as an api maybe.

Answer 1

There several ways to achieve that, you can use middleware, you can consider using packages like entrust which also require you to have some knowledge about using middleware. or use laravel Auth

Answer 2

create a table add all the routes in that table and then check the allowed route in AppService provider.

$routename = Request::route()->getName(); $allowed_route = AllowedRoutes::where("route","=",$routename)->count();

if($allowed_route == 0) exit();