Echods Roles

Laravel based roles for Laravel 9+.

Installing the package

composer require echods/roles

For Laravel < 5.8

See 1.1 Documentation

Publish config files

Below will publish all files that you can configure.

$ php artisan vendor:publish --tag=roles

Or you can publish these files individually.

$ php artisan vendor:publish --tag=roles-config
$ php artisan vendor:publish --tag=roles-migrations
$ php artisan vendor:publish --tag=roles-seeders
$ php artisan vendor:publish --tag=roles-models
$ php artisan vendor:publish --tag=roles-traits

Modify config file to set roles

Add the roles you need for your application and descriptions in the config file. Also change if you would like big integer migrations or note.

<?php

return [

    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Default Roles
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Here you can setup your default roles to seed your database
    |
    */
    'all' => [
        [
            'handle' => 'admin',
            'description' => 'Administrator role with full access'
        ],
        [
            'handle' => 'editor',
            'description' => 'Editor role with content management access'
        ],
        [
            'handle' => 'user',
            'description' => 'Basic user role with limited access'
        ],
    ],
    ...

$ php artisan migrate

Run setup for roles

This will fill the database with roles from the config file. If you published the seeder then simply run:

$ php artisan db:seed --class=RolesSeeder

If you did not publish the seeder then run the following:

$ php artisan db:seed --class="EchoDS\\\\Roles\\\\Database\\\\Seeders\\\\RolesSeeder"

HasRole Trait

use Echods\Roles\Traits\HasRole;

class User extends Authenticatable
{

    use HasRole;

    //...
}

Usage

Checking Roles

You can check roles of a user from the list of roles you have in the config. For example if you have roles admin, editor, employee then you can do the following. Returns boolean.

$user = User::find(1);
$user->isAdmin();
$user->isEditor();
$user->isEmployee();

Alternatively you can do the following:

$user->hasRole('editor');

Checking for multiple roles

Checking if a user has multiple roles

$user->hasRoles(['admin', 'editor']);

// or

$user->hasRoles(['editor', 'admin']);

Attaching a role

$user->attachRole('superAdmin');