Laravel 5: Encrypting Strings With encrypt

The encrypt helper function can be used to encrypt a given string value. The function resolves the configured "Illuminate\Contracts\Encryption\Encrypter" implementation from the Service Container and then calls the encrypt method on the Encrypter instance.

#Signature

The signature of the encrypt function is:

1function encrypt(
2    $value
3);

#Example Use

The following examples are all equivalent:

 1use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Crypt;
 2 
 3// Encrypt using the Crypt facade:
 4Crypt::encrypt('Hello, Universe');
 5 
 6// Encrypt using the encrypt helper:
 7encrypt('Hello, Universe');
 8 
 9// Retrieve an instance from the Service Container.
10app('encrypter')->encrypt('Hello, Universe');
11 
12// Retrieve an instance from the Service Container.
13resolve('encrypter')->encrypt('Hello, Universe');

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