Laravel Route for retrieving logs via browser.

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  // Authentication based on PingPong Admin package. Use your own authentication package as filter or remove this filter. ( not recommendd )
  Route::get('getLog', array('before' => 'admin.auth', function() {

        $path = storage_path() . "/logs/";
        $date = Input::get('date');

        try {
            if (!isset($date)) {
                $latest_ctime = 0;
                $latest_filename = '';

                $d = dir($path);
                while (false !== ($entry = $d->read())) {
                    $filepath = "{$path}/{$entry}";
                    // could do also other checks than just checking whether the entry is a file
                    if (is_file($filepath) && filectime($filepath) > $latest_ctime) {
                        $latest_ctime = filectime($filepath);
                        $latest_filename = $entry;
                    }
                }


                $file = file($path . $latest_filename);
                $length = count($file) - 2000;
                if ($length <= 0) {
                    $length = count($file);
                }
                echo $latest_filename . '<hr>' . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL;

                for ($i = count($file) - $length; $i < count($file); $i++) {
                    echo $file[$i] . '<br>' . PHP_EOL;
                }
            } else {
                $filePath = $path . 'laravel-' . trim($date) . '.log';
                $file = file($filePath);
                $length = count($file) - 1000;
                if ($length <= 0) {
                    $length = count($file);
                }
                echo $filePath . '<hr>' . PHP_EOL . PHP_EOL;

                for ($i = count($file) - $length; $i < count($file); $i++) {
                    echo $file[$i] . '<br>' . PHP_EOL;
                }
            }

        } catch (Exception $e) {
            echo "System Exception: " . $e->getMessage();
        }




    }));