Build a Hotspot Management App with Laravel & Router OS API

Name: Build a Hotspot Management App with Laravel & Router OS API
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Learn to build a Hotspot Management Application using Laravel and Mikrotik Router OS API.

Created bySimon Angatia

Last updated 6/2022

English

What you'll learn

Learn of to do the physical set up of your Mikrotik Routerboard
Learn the basic mikrotik router configurations to access the internet
Learn and understand the hotspot setup on the WLAN interface of the mikrotik router to access the internet through hotspot
Learn and understand the installation of user-manager package and setup of radius server for authenticating hotspot users
Set up a new Larave application and install requires packages for interacting with the API interface of the Mikrotik router
Learn how to connect to the mikrotik router OS through API interface
Understand the Miktorik router OS basic API commands and how to interact with mikrotik router using the API interface
Learn how to send queries to the mikrotik router and how to process the response through API interface from a Laravel application
Setup user authentication module of the laravel application
Learn how to register users using the IP address and the mac address of the device
Learn how to interact with Mikrotik router using the Userman user interface to create customers and users
Learn how to add users to the user-manager database of the mikrotik router using the API interface
Learn how to activate users added to the Mikrotik router so that they can access the internet
Automatically generate the username and password for the users registered in to our application for logging into the hotspot
Learn about walled garden and walled garden IP to know how to allow a few websites and ports to access internet before the user is logged in to the hotspot
Test the application to authenticate users to login to the hotspot

Course content

5 sections • 36 lectures • 4h 14m total length

Introduction5:00
Explore building a hotspot management app with Laravel and RouterOS API, setting up authentication, user management, and payment integration (PayPal) for package-based access.
Laravel Knowlledge needed1:56

01 Downloading and Installing Winbox4:06
Download Winbox for your computer architecture, connect to the router, and begin configuring from scratch, including resetting configurations and preparing to authenticate users and set up the server.
2 Configure the routers IP address5:34
configure the router's IP address using automatic address acquisition or a static range, apply the settings, and prepare for bridge configuration in the next session.
3 Creating and configuring the Mikrotik Bridge Interface5:21
4 Configuring the DHCP Server3:05
Configure the dhcp server on the home bridge to assign ip addresses, gateway, subnet, and dns for clients using the specified range. The session also introduces nat for internet access.
5 Creating NAT Rule3:15
Create a nat rule to enable internet access for hotspot clients by masquerading traffic through the internet-facing interface, enabling devices to browse online.
6 Setting up the WLAN Interface6:27
Configure the WLAN interface by creating a custom security profile with a password, applying it to the wireless interface, and managing internet access via bridge settings.

7 User-manager package installation4:46
Install the user-manager package on RouterOS by downloading the exact version for your architecture from the MikroTik download page, then upload via system files and reboot.
8 Setting up Radius Server8:53
9 Setting up the radius server part 23:50
10 Interacting with usermanager user interface9:47
Master hotspot user management with a Router OS API and Laravel, using the user manager interface to auto-create customers, profiles, and paid user accounts.
11 Testing hotspot Login with radius server authentication4:05
12 Testing hotspot Login with radius server authentication 26:10

13 Setting up a Laravel Project7:30
14 Installing Pear2 NetOs Package for interacting with mikrotik router4:46
Set up a Laravel project, run the local server, and install a package to interact with the real-time router API, exploring Composer installation and manual setup options.
15 Connecting to Mikrotik user using API interface9:15
Learn to connect a Laravel app to a Mikrotik router via the RouterOS API by installing the package, configuring a controller method, and handling authentication with IP, admin, and password.
16 Connecting to Mikrotik router 23:42
Connect to the Mikrotik router via Router OS API, update composer, install Laravel packages, and configure the net transmitter with a three-line JSON payload to establish a connection.
17 Interacting with mikrotik router using API interface12:19
18 Interacting with Mikrotik router 25:15
Learn to interact with mikrotik router to monitor devices, enforce conditions, and remove unauthorized users. Build user management workflows with a browser connection, command initialization, and api interfaces.

19 Laravel application authentication module3:23
Install and configure the Laravel UI package to enable a bootstrap-based authentication system with register, login, and password reset pages, then compile assets with npm and verify the authentication flow.
20 Connecting our application to the database5:03
Connect your Laravel app to a local database by creating the database, configuring the connection, and migrating the users table with fields like name, email, password, and Mac address.
21 Integrating our frontend theme to the application10:05
22 Testing user-manager commands4:19
23 User profiles or data plans or packages in Mikrotik8:34
Explore MikroTik user profiles and data packages, including speed limits and expiry. Learn to create and assign profiles via the RouterOS interface to control hotspot access.
24 Customizing user registration part 112:29
Add login and register on the page, enforce authentication to protect the subscription page, and validate phone, IP address, and MAC address in the register controller.
25 User registration functionality10:27
Build a robust user registration functionality by capturing IP address and MAC addresses, implementing a register controller, validating user data, and testing login redirects within the hotspot management app.
26 Creating hotspot subscription table and relationships11:13
27 Adding users to user-manager database11:19
28 Creating the user on the hotspot and testing the user login9:50
Create and register hotspot users, test the login flow, and verify access on the hotspot with Laravel and Router OS API. Manage users, IP address, and subscription data through login.
29 Adding users to subscriptions table functionality10:02
30 Displaying the users login information on the home page8:16
Shows how to fetch the logged-in user and their subscriptions in a Laravel controller and display the login information and active subscriptions on the home page.
31 Where to integrate payment gateways3:26
Learn to integrate payment gateways before subscription, support multiple payment methods, and activate subscriptions after successful payments.
32 Connecting the Router Login page with our application11:34
Connect the router login page to your application and implement redirects to a seamless login and register flow, including handling logged-in states and access to hotspot features.
33 Walled garden and allowing API port in the walled garden13:45
Explore how a walled garden allows specific domains and API ports to reach the internet, enabling API calls and PayPal payments even when users aren’t authenticated.
34 Testing the application5:51
Test the hotspot app by simulating user registration, subscription, and login flows, ensuring unique mac addresses and internet access via the Router OS API.

Requirements

Programming experience in PHP Laravel Needed(At least the beginner level) I don't explain a lot of laravel basics
You must have PHP development environement setup, even though I explain a little-bit of how to do that
You must have a mikrotik router board running the OS version that works with API(I use RB 951UI) mikrotik router

Description

Wireless internet service provider software is one of the most expensive software that is also in high demand. However, most network engineers are not software developers and they shy away from programming. In the current world, there is always a need to automate things. In this course, you will learn how to build the application to automatically manage your hotspot users so that they have to register and a username and password will automatically be generated for them to be able to login into the hotspot. This course will give a glimpse of how the wireless internet service provider works and this can enable you to develop your own software if you would like to automatically manage your hotspot users using the Mikrotik API. Mikrotik API made it simple for developers to be able to work with the router os for automation.

The information about Mikrotik OS and API is very scarce on the internet and this makes it hard for the beginners working with or who would like to work with MikroTik API.

What we will cover in this course

The physical configuration of the Mikrotik router
Installation of Winbox software from Mikrotik to be able to configure our router
The basic configuration of our router to access the internet
Installation of a new Laravel application
Installation of packages required for interacting with router OS API interface and then we will go-ahead to build our application

Who this course is for:

Laravel/PHP Developers who would like to know how to interact with Mikrotik OS API
Laravel/PHP developers who would like to know how to develop a Wireless Internet Service Provider software to automatically manage users

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Introduction2 lectures • 7min

Getting started and router configuration6 lectures • 28min

User-manager and Radius Server6 lectures • 38min

Setup and Configure a Laravel Application6 lectures • 43min

User authentication, application development and testing16 lectures • 2hr 20min

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