What choose Multi Auth? Guards or Roles?

I have always chosen method Role. In this project, which I would like to do, there will be about 5 registration methods and in each registration the fields will change. And each type of registration can be called a role, it will have its own ORM structure. and another html. I tried to find the answer in Google and found 2 options (WITH ROLES OR GUARDS). I would like to hear advice from experienced developers which option is better? Thanks all!

aurawindsurfing

5 years ago

Best Answer

Level 50

Hey @artur33s

A very simple answer would be to use use both.

Guards should "guard" your application or parts of it from users that should not be able to access it eg. login/password. It is also called AUTHENTICATION https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/authentication

Roles should allow authenticated user to perform certain actions therefore giving such role AUTHENTICATION to do it. https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/authorization

As you can see you can also use Gates and Policies. Role would be more granular in my view then Gate or Policy.

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artur33s

5 years ago

Level 1

Thank you!

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