Laravel permissioning system(Role based access control)

Using ACL is a much common requirement for almost every project ranging from few users to big CRM's.

Laravel has multiple options for using ACL for your project or website.

Spatie has a nice & simple package for role based ACL which works with your existing user model. This package allows you to manage user permissions and roles in a database.

Once installed you can do stuff like this:

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

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

If you're using multiple guards, every guard will have its own set of permissions and roles that can be assigned to the guard's users. You can even this package with Laravel & Lumen.

Because all permissions will be registered on Laravel's gate, you can check if a user has a permission with Laravel's default can function:

Here are some examples how we can use it :

// You may also pass an array
$user->givePermissionTo(['edit articles', 'delete articles']);

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

$user->syncPermissions(['edit articles', 'delete articles']);

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

$user->hasPermissionTo('1');
$user->hasPermissionTo(Permission::find(1)->id);
$user->hasPermissionTo($somePermission->id);

$user->hasAnyPermission(['edit articles', 'publish articles', 'unpublish articles']);

There are so many things you can do with with package. Head over & add it to your project.