trusty.md

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Roles and Permissions for Laravel 5

Trusty - Roles and Permissions for Laravel 5

• Installation
• Creating A Role
• Creating A Permission
• Adding Permission to Role
• Adding Role to User
• Checking Role User
• Checking User Permission

Installation

Open your composer.json file, and add the new required package.

"pingpong/trusty": "~2.1"

Next, open a terminal and run.

composer update

Next, Add new service provider in config/app.php.

  'Pingpong\Trusty\TrustyServiceProvider',

Next, Add new aliases in config/app.php.

'Trusty'      => 'Pingpong\Trusty\Facades\Trusty',
'Role'		  => 'Pingpong\Trusty\Role',
'Permission'  => 'Pingpong\Trusty\Permission',

Next, publish the package's migrations.

php artisan vendor:publish

NOTE: If you want to modify the roles and permissions table, you can publish the migration.

Done.

Usage

Add Pingpong\Trusty\Traits\TrustyTrait trait to your User model. For example.

<?php

use Illuminate\Auth\UserTrait;
use Illuminate\Auth\UserInterface;
use Illuminate\Auth\Reminders\RemindableTrait;
use Illuminate\Auth\Reminders\RemindableInterface;

use Pingpong\Trusty\Traits\TrustyTrait;

class User extends \Eloquent implements UserInterface, RemindableInterface {

	use UserTrait, RemindableTrait, TrustyTrait;

	/**
	 * The database table used by the model.
	 *
	 * @var string
	 */
	protected $table = 'users';

}
?>

Creating A Role.

With description.

Role::create([
	'name'			=>	'Administrator',
	'slug'			=>	Str::slug('Administrator', '_'),
	'description'	=>	'The Super Administrator'
]);

Without description.

Role::create([
	'name'	=>	'Editor',
	'slug'	=>	Str::slug('Editor', '_'),
]);

Creating A Permission

With description.

Permission::create([
	'name'			=>	'Manage Users',
 	'slug'			=>	Str::slug('Manage Users', '_'), // manage_users
 	'description'	=>	'Create, Read, Update and Delete Users'
]);

Without description.

Permission::create([
	'name'			=>	'Manage Posts',
 	'slug'			=>	Str::slug('Manage Posts', '_'), // manage_posts
]);

Adding Permission to Role.

$permission_id = 1;
$role = Role::findOrFail(1);
$role->permissions()->attach($permission_id);

Adding Role to User.

By Role ID.

Auth::user()->addRole(1);

By Slug Or Name.

Auth::user()->addRole('admin');

Auth::user()->addRole('Administrator');

Checking Role User

Checking single role.

if(Auth::user()->is('administrator'))
{
	// your code here
}

Multiple roles.

if(Auth::user()->is('administrator', 'subscriber'))
{
	// your code here
}

Or using magic method.

if(Auth::user()->isAdministrator())
{
	// your code
}

Checking User Permission

Single check.

if(Auth::user()->can('manage_users'))
{
	// your code here
}

Checking multiple permissions.

if(Auth::user()->can('manage_users', 'manage_pages'))
{
	// your code here
}

Or using magic method.

if(Auth::user()->canManageUsers())
{
	// your code here
}

Check permissions against a role.

$role = Role::findOrFail(1);

if ($role->can('manage_users'))
{
	// your code here
}

Or using magic method.

$role = Role::findOrFail(1);

if($role->canManageUsers())
{
	// your code here
}