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Look in to the spatie package called permissions. It has both roles and permissions. I use it all the time
Oct 8, 2021
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A system with several user roles.
I'm making a system with user roles like admin, teacher and student, but I don't know how to approach it yet. I just finished the laravel 8 from scratch series. I need some idea because its still confusing for me.
I was thinking that I can put them all in one table like Users table for example since they're all users, but I was wondering if its ok to do it like that since they would all have different columns, a student would have Grade column for instance but the admin and teacher won't need that.
So I thought it would be better if they have their own respective tables then that would allow me to set relationships since I would have to do it for teacher and student. But still I have no idea if this is the right way.
I haven't started the development yet. I only have a little idea about the roles and permissions part. I would appreciate any help, thanks!
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@Sinnbeck Ok thanks a lot, I'll check it out right now.
Level 4
@Sinnbeck So, basically I could use multiple models, then I could simply set any role I want on any model instance? does that make sense?
Level 102
@kramsuiluj I would suggest to just use it on the user model and just have different roles for different permissions.
Level 4
@Sinnbeck I see, but how do you address the part where each role has a different set of columns? Is it fine just to leave it empty if its not for the specific user role?
Level 122
I have a post that shows how you can have a single model for authentication and then other models for people's other details
http://novate.co.uk/using-laravel-polymorphic-relationships-for-different-user-profiles/
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@Snapey Interesting, thanks a lot! I'll give it a shot and I'll just follow up with some questions if I have any.
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