How many ways you can add middleware in controller .?

There are many more cases where you would like to use a middleware.

• Using a middleware to confirm the incoming route request API key. Assuming you are building an API.
• Rate-limiting a service call.
• Change the site language based on locale.
• Enable site-wide maintenance.
• Sniffing bot traffic.
• Logging.

You can implement middleware in different form based on requirements.. If you follow L5.6 doc. you can find :

Global Middleware

• If you want a middleware to run during every HTTP request to your application

Assigning Middleware To Routes

• If you would like to assign middleware to specific routes,

Middleware Groups

• Sometimes you may want to group several middleware under a single key to make them easier to assign to routes

Hope this help. Thanks!

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