Laravel 5 Authentication and Roles

Create a middleware class.

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

class RolesMiddleware implements Middleware {

    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
    // Perform Action
        foreach ($this->roles as $role)
        {
            if ($role == 'super admin')
            {
                redirect('superadmin.dashboard');
            }
        }

            return $next($request);
    }
}

This should give you an idea.

Thank you @Ruffles. I realized I could just customize RedirectIfAuthenticated Middleware and it worked well.

@jkoech can you please share your RedirectIfAuthenticated Middleware?

@jkoech are you now going to forgo Zizaco Entrust and simply use the middleware?

@csuarez yes, I did stick with the middleware, I found out that it was really easy stuff.

@ptgokulrajan basically, I didn't change RedirectIfAuthenticated, I just created a new IsRole middleware, i.e IsAdmin.php with something similar to the below:

<?php namespace App\Http\Middleware;
use Closure;
use Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse;
class IsAdmin {
    /**
     * Handle an incoming request.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @param  \Closure  $next
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function handle($request, Closure $next)
    {
        $user = $request->user();
        if ($user && $user->isAdmin())
        {
            return $next($request);
        }
        return new RedirectResponse(url('/'));
    }
}

IC. thanks