Associate users with permissions and roles

Documentation, Installation, and Usage Instructions

See the documentation for detailed instructions for how-to-use, as well as installation and upgrade guidance.

What It Does

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');

$role->givePermissionTo('edit articles');

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:

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

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Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Testing

composer test

Security

If you discover any security-related issues, please email security@spatie.be instead of using the issue tracker.

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Credits

• Chris Brown
• Freek Van der Herten
• All Contributors

This package is heavily based on Jeffrey Way's awesome Laracasts lessons on permissions and roles. His original code can be found in this repo on GitHub.

Special thanks to Alex Vanderbist who greatly helped with v2, and to Chris Brown for his longtime support helping us maintain the package.

Special thanks to Caneco for the original logo.

Alternatives

• Povilas Korop did an excellent job listing the alternatives in an article on Laravel News. In that same article, he compares laravel-permission to Joseph Silber's Bouncer, which in our book is also an excellent package.
• santigarcor/laratrust implements team support
• ultraware/roles (archived) takes a slightly different approach to its features.
• zizaco/entrust offers some wildcard pattern matching

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.