This assignment will use Laravel and the chinook SQLite database.

All Laravel assignments, labs, and class demos will build on the same installation.

The Home Page

Modify the / route so that it directs users to /genres instead of /login.

Maintenance Mode Middleware

You are going to create middleware that redirects users to a maintenance mode page that comes default with Laravel if you visit the URL /maintenance, if there is a record in the settings table with an id of maintenance_mode and its value is 1. If that record's value is 0, users should not be redirected to that page. Name the middleware MaintenanceMode. This middleware should only apply to public routes (the ones without the protected middleware), but exclude the following:

Route::get('/login', 'LoginController@index');
Route::post('/login', 'LoginController@login');
Route::get('/logout', 'LoginController@logout');

This is so that certain users can login even if the site is in maintenance mode.

Toggling Maintenance Mode

Create a /settings page that is protected by authentication. This page will have a form with one checkbox that will toggle the settings record with an id of maintenance_mode. You can use Eloquent or the Query Builder for this.

Add a navigation link for this page, and make sure it only shows up if the user is logged in.

Submission

Please push up your code including the database to GitHub to the same repository as last week (itp405-laravel-assignments). You should already have connected your GitHub repository to Heroku for automatic deployments. If you haven't, follow these instructions. Verify that your app has been deployed and it works on Heroku. Send an email to me and the TA with the repository URL and the URL to the live site on Heroku.