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Dont.
Use a single guard and use roles to determine what people can do.
Use guards for different authentication methods not for different classes of user
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Mar 3, 2024
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Authentication Guard
I have the following role ("Admin", "JobCoach", "Company ", "Manager ") , How I can add them to guards in config\auth.php
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@Snapey if there any link for user role will help me
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@Mona_Salih12 You can add columns to the user table with boolean flags for each role (allows one user to have many roles) or you can have a single field that contains a string identifying their role (user can only ever have one role) or you can implement a roles package such as Spatie Permissions
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Thank you very much for your assistance. Could you please provide me with a link or some guidance on how to use guards? I appreciate your help in advance.
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@Mona_Salih12 no because I think they add pointless complexity
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@Snapey Many thanks
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@Snapey hey snapey, I have a when we should use guards?
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@Mona_Salih12 Just FYI, this forum being 9+ years old already has discussions on:
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usage of authorization instead of multi guards to determine who can and cannot do something
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also usage of multiple guards
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in depth discussions of authentication and authorization in general (some very detailed).
But again just some fyi.
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@amitsolanki24_ when you need different methods of authentication
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@mona_salih12 Just use roles.
This topic has come up so many times that I wrote a blog post on it a while ago: https://martinbean.dev/blog/2021/07/29/simple-role-based-authentication-laravel/
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