Laravel 4 route protected pages - laravel

Question

I have a controller UserController.php which contains the following methods:
getIndex(), getAll(), getCreate(), postStore(), getShow(), getEdit(), putUpdate(), getDestroy(), getLogin(), getDashboard(), and getLogout().
I have included the following codes into the routes.php
Route::get('/', function()
{
return View::make('hello');
});
Route::get('users/all/', [ 'as' => 'users.index', 'uses' => 'UserController#getAll']);
Route::get('users/create/', [ 'as' => 'users.getCreate', 'uses' => 'UserController#getCreate']);
Route::get('users/{all}/edit', 'UserController#getEdit');
Route::put('users/update/{id}', [ 'as' => 'users.putUpdate', 'uses' => 'UserController#putUpdate']);
Route::controller('users', 'UserController');
I can access the pages like
http://localhost/testlaravell/users/
or
http://localhost/testlaravell/users/add
etc.
Now, I want that only logged in users can access the pages, other wise s/he will be redirect to the login page http://localhost/testlaravell/login
The methods for login under UserController.php as follows:
public function postSignin() {
$rules = array(
'username' => 'required', // make sure the username is an actual username
'password' => 'required|alphaNum|min:3' // password can only be alphanumeric and has to be greater than 3 characters
);
// run the validation rules on the inputs from the form
$validator = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules);
// if the validator fails, redirect back to the form
if ($validator->fails()) {
return Redirect::to('users/login')
->withErrors($validator) // send back all errors to the login form
->withInput(Input::except('password')); // send back the input (not the password) so that we can repopulate the form
} else {
// create our user data for the authentication
$userdata = array(
'username' => Input::get('username'),
'password' => Input::get('password')
);
// attempt to do the login
if (Auth::attempt($userdata)) {
return Redirect::to('users/dashboard')->with('message', 'Welcome User');
} else {
// validation not successful, send back to form
return Redirect::to('users/login')->with('message', 'Sorry!! Username/ Password seems wrong.');
}
}
}
public function getLogin() {
return View::make('users.login');
}

Answer 1

You'll want to make use of the Auth Filter in Laravel 4
You can wrap all your routes in a group and specify that filter, in your case the code would be something like this.
Route::group(array('before' => 'auth'), function()
{
Route::get('users/all/', [ 'as' => 'users.index', 'uses' => 'UserController#getAll']);
Route::get('users/create/', [ 'as' => 'users.getCreate', 'uses' => 'UserController#getCreate']);
Route::get('users/{all}/edit', 'UserController#getEdit');
Route::put('users/update/{id}', [ 'as' => 'users.putUpdate', 'uses' => 'UserController#putUpdate']);
Route::controller('users', 'UserController');
});
You can checkout the documentation on Route Groups here