Simple Laravel roles and permissions

Introduction

This package allows you to assign roles and permissions to any laravel model, or on a pivot table (many to many relationship).

Built and written by Ajimoti Ibukun

Documentation

You can read the proper documentation here

Quick Samples

On a Model

The example below explains how to use the package on a model after installation.

use App\Enums\Role;
use App\Enums\Permission;

// Assign a 'Super Admin' role to this user
$user->assign(Role::SuperAdmin);

// Check if the user has the role
$user->hasRole(Role::SuperAdmin);
// Or 
$user->isSuperAdmin(); // returns true

// Check if the user can perform a operation
$user->can(Permission::DeleteTransactions); 
// Or 
$user->canDeleteTransactions(); 

// Check if the user has multiple permissions
$user->holds(Permission::DeleteTransactions, Permission::BlockUsers);

Pivot table (many to many relationship)

This demonstrates how to use the package on a many to many relationship. In this example, we assume we have a merchant relationship in our User model. And this relationship returns an instance of Laravel's BelongsToMany class.

Import the App\Enums\Role and App\Enums\Permission class.

use App\Enums\Role;
use App\Enums\Permission;

// Sample merchant
$merchant = Merchant::where('name', 'wallmart')->first();

// Assign a 'Super Admin' role to this user on the selected merchant (wallmart)
$user->of($merchant)->assign(Role::SuperAdmin);

// Check if the user has a super admin role on the selected merchant (wallmart)
$user->of($merchant)->hasRole(Role::SuperAdmin);

// Check if the user can 'delete transactions' on the selected merchant (wallmart)
$user->of($merchant)->can(Permission::DeleteTransactions);

// Check if the user has multiple permissions on the selected merchant (wallmart)
$user->of($merchant)->holds(Permission::DeleteTransactions, Permission::BlockUsers);

We used the user model to make the example explanatory, similar to the examples above the package will work on any model class.

Requirements

• PHP 8.0 or higher
• Laravel 8.0 or higher
• Upon installation, the package publishes a config/roles-and-permissions.php file, ensure you do not have a file with the same name in your config directory.

Pros

• The package can be used on any model, i.e any model can be assigned roles, and permissions.
• Roles can be given multiple permissions.
• Models have permissions via roles.
• Models can be assigned multiple roles.
• A many to many relationship can be assigned roles. (i.e the package can be used on a pivot table).
• Supports role hierarchy. (A higher level role can be configured to have the permissions of lower level roles).

Crons

• Permissions cannot be assigned directly on a many to many relationship.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require ajimoti/roles-and-permissions

If you have existing pivot tables that you want to apply the package on, you can add the table names to the pivot.tables array in the config/roles-and-permissions.php config file. The command below will add a role column to every pivot table provided in the array.

Run the command below, then you are set to use the package.

php artisan roles:install

Documentation

Visit https://roles.ajimoti.com/docs/intro to better understand how to use the package.

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Credits

• ajimoti
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.