dcastanera/laravel-roles

Roles and Permissions for Laravel 5

Laravel Roles & Permissions

This package is designed to provide a very basic roles and permissions structure for Laravel 5., _(*1)

Installation

To install this roles package, you must use Composer. Type the following in your Command Line Interface, _(*2)

composer require dcastanera/laravel-roles

This should install all the roles files to your vendors directory., _(*3)

Service Provider

Next we want to register the service provider in the /config/app.php file. Go to the array for providers and enter the following:, _(*4)

DCastanera\Roles\RolesServiceProvider::class,

Database Migrations

Now we want to bring in the migrations by typing the following:, _(*5)

php artisan vendor:publish

The above command copied a new migration into your migrations folder so now we need to run a migration., _(*6)

php artisan migrate

User Model

In order for the roles to attach to the user, we need to add the Roleable trait in the user model. Add the following to the top of the user model to include the trait., _(*7)

use DCastanera\Roles\Roleable;

Then add the following inside the class after use notifiable., _(*8)

use Roleable;

You should be all set after that., _(*9)

Roles

To use Roles you need to make sure you reference the Roles model., _(*10)

use DCastanera\Roles\Role;

Creating Roles

To create a role you can try the following:, _(*11)

$role = new Role;
$role->name = 'Super Administrator';
$role->slug = 'super';
$role->description = 'This is the Super Administrator role.';
$role->save();

or you can also use the create method:, _(*12)

$role = Role::create([
    'name' => 'Administrator',
    'slug' => 'admin',
    'description' => 'This is the system Administrator.',
]);

both should function the same., _(*13)

Attaching Roles

To attach a role to a user, we simply need to call both objects and save them using the eloquent roles method as follows:, _(*14)

// First grab the user object
$user = User::find(1);

// Next grab the role object
$role = Role::find(1);

// Use the following to attach them.
$user->roles()->save($role);

Detaching Roles

To detach a role from a user, we simply need to call both objects and delete the role from the roles method as follows:, _(*15)

// First grab the user object
$user = User::find(1);

// Next grab the role object
$role = Role::find(1);

// Use the following to detach them.
$user->roles()->delete($role);