Simple, customizable cookie consent message for Laravel

This package adds a simple, customizable cookie consent message to your site. When the site loads, the banner appears and lets users consent to cookies. Once consent is given, the banner hides and stays hidden.

What this package does not:

• Include an option to 'Decline' all cookies, which might be required.
• Block trackers and cookies before consent. You need to handle this yourself.
• Include options for different consent categories like "Necessary" or "Marketing".

For more advanced cookie consent options in Laravel, consider these alternatives.

• whitecube/laravel-cookie-consent
• statikbe/laravel-cookie-consent

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Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require spatie/laravel-cookie-consent

The package will automatically register itself.

Optionally you can publish the config-file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\CookieConsent\CookieConsentServiceProvider" --tag="cookie-consent-config"

This is the contents of the published config-file:

return [

    /*
     * Use this setting to enable the cookie consent dialog.
     */
    'enabled' => env('COOKIE_CONSENT_ENABLED', true),

    /*
     * The name of the cookie in which we store if the user
     * has agreed to accept the conditions.
     */
    'cookie_name' => 'laravel_cookie_consent',

    /*
     * Set the cookie duration in days.  Default is 365 * 20.
     */
    'cookie_lifetime' => 365 * 20,
];

The cookie domain is set by the 'domain' key in config/session.php, make sure you add a value in your .env for SESSION_DOMAIN. If you are using a domain with a port in the url such as 'localhost:3000', this package will not work until you do so.

Usage

To display the dialog all you have to do is include this view in your template:

//in your blade template
@include('cookie-consent::index')

This will render the following dialog that, when styled, will look very much like this one.

The default styling provided by this package uses TailwindCSS v2 to provide a floating banner at the bottom of the page.

When the user clicks "Allow cookies" a laravel_cookie_consent cookie will be set and the dialog will be removed from the DOM. On the next request, Laravel will notice that the laravel_cookie_consent has been set and will not display the dialog again

Customising the dialog texts

If you want to modify the text shown in the dialog you can publish the lang-files with this command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\CookieConsent\CookieConsentServiceProvider" --tag="cookie-consent-translations"

This will publish this file to resources/lang/vendor/cookie-consent/en/texts.php.

return [
    'message' => 'Please be informed that this site uses cookies.',
    'agree' => 'Allow cookies',
];

If you want to translate the values to, for example, French, just copy that file over to resources/lang/vendor/cookie-consent/fr/texts.php and fill in the French translations.

Customising the dialog contents

If you need full control over the contents of the dialog. You can publish the views of the package:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\CookieConsent\CookieConsentServiceProvider" --tag="cookie-consent-views"

This will copy the index and dialogContents view files over to resources/views/vendor/cookie-consent. You probably only want to modify the dialogContents view. If you need to modify the JavaScript code of this package you can do so in the index view file.

Using the middleware

Instead of including cookie-consent::index in your view you could opt to add the Spatie\CookieConsent\CookieConsentMiddleware to your kernel:

// app/Http/Kernel.php

class Kernel extends HttpKernel
{
    protected $middleware = [
        // ...
        \Spatie\CookieConsent\CookieConsentMiddleware::class,
    ];

    // ...
}

This will automatically add cookie-consent::index to the content of your response right before the closing body tag.

Notice

We are not lawyers and can't provide legal advice. Consult legal professionals what rules apply to your project.

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Testing

composer test

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security

If you discover any security-related issues, please email freek@spatie.be instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits

• Freek Van der Herten
• Willem Van Bockstal
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.