Last-Modified / 304 Not Modified Handler for Laravel

Easily setting the Last-Modified header and 304 Not Modified response code.

Requirements

• PHP 7.4 - 8.3
• Laravel 8.x - 11.x

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require abordage/laravel-last-modified

Optionally, you can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="last-modified-config"

Usage

The setup is very simple and consists of two steps:

Registering middleware

// in app/Http/Kernel.php

protected $middleware = [
    'web' => [
        // other middleware
        
        \Abordage\LastModified\Middleware\LastModifiedHandling::class,
    ],
];

Set Last Update Date in your Controller

<?php
 
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
 
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use LastModified;
 
class PostController extends Controller
{
    public function show($id)
    {
        $post = \App\Models\Post::findOrFail($id);

        LastModified::set($post->updated_at);
        
        return view('posts.show', ['post' => $post]);
    }
}

It's all. Now you can check the headers.

How to check headers

You can check headers in the browser console under the Network tab (make sure Disable Cache is off)

or

using https://last-modified.com/en

Testing

composer test:all

or

composer test:phpunit
composer test:phpstan
composer test:phpcsf

or see https://github.com/abordage/laravel-last-modified/actions/workflows/tests.yml

Feedback

If you have any feedback, comments or suggestions, please feel free to open an issue within this repository.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Credits

• Pavel Bychko
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.