Basic authentication for Laravel 4, based on https://github.com/olssonm/l5-very-basic-auth

BasicAuthFilter.php

<?php
	Route::filter('auth.very_basic', function($request, $response)
	{
		// Load configuration
		$veryBasicAuthUser = 'admin';
		$veryBasicAuthPass = 'admin';
		$veryBasicAuthEnvs = array('dev');
		$veryBasicAuthMsg  = 'Access denied';
	
		// Check if middleware is in use in current environment
		if(in_array(App::environment(), $veryBasicAuthEnvs)) {
			// dd(Request::header());
			if(Request::header('php-auth-user') != $veryBasicAuthUser || Request::header('php-auth-pw') != $veryBasicAuthPass) {
				$response = Response::make($veryBasicAuthMsg, 401);
				$response->header('WWW-Authenticate', 'Basic');
				return $response;
			}
		}
	});