README

Composer package for user roles in a Laravel project.

Installation

composer require carving-i-t/laravel-user-roles 

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="CarvingIT\LaravelUserRoles\LaravelUserRolesServiceProvider" 

php artisan migrate

Running the role seeder (optional)

php artisan db:seed --class=RoleSeeder

Usage

In your User model, use the trait - LaravelUserRoles and then your user model can have following methods.

use CarvingIT\LaravelUserRoles\App\Traits\LaravelUserRoles;

class User extends Authenticatable{
    use LaravelUserRoles;

    .
    .
}

In your code elsewhere in your app -

//assign roles 
$user->assignRoles(['admin','staff']);
//unassign roles 
$user->unassignRoles(['admin']);

// check if your has a role
// returns true or false
$user->hasRole('admin'); 

// get all roles of a user

$roles = $user->roles(); // remember to use the parentheses