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A package to add roles and permissions to Laravel

Original – by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

With the release of Laravel 5.1.1 last week the framework gained some nice Authorization features. It provides an easy way to define abilities (aka permissions). Checking if a user has certain abilities is very simple as well. The code powering authorization is a thing of beauty. If you're a Laracasts subscriber let Jeffrey Way guide you through the code. In a later lesson he demonstrates how to add role based authentication.

I've used Jeffrey's code as a base to create a new package called laravel-permission. The package provides an easy way to associate users with roles and permissions.


//adding permissions to a user
$user->givePermissionTo('edit articles');

//adding permissions via a role
$user->assignRole('writer');
$user2->assignRole('writer');

$role->givePermissionTo('edit articles');

Saved permissions and roles are also registered with the Illuminate\Auth\Access\Gate-class. So permissions can be checked with Laravel's native can-function.


$user->can('edit articles');

Take a look at the readme on GitHub to see some more examples on how the package can be used.

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