Laravel in Apache getting header value

Question

I have the following piece of code in Laravel BaseController. I want to protect all my api resources with an Authorization header with a token.

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Answer 1

You cannot have two returns in PHP:

return Request::header();
return Response::json();

So in your code, only the header will return, and your code will exit.

I think this will work

return Response::json(['error'=>'Not authorized. Access token needed in Header.Authorization'], 403)->header('Authorization');

If not - this definetely will:

$response = Response::json(['error'=>'Not authorized. Access token needed in Header.Authorization'], 403);
$response->header('Authorization');
return $response;