Laravel 5.5 Middleware Tutorial : How to Create Login with Multiple Level Access in laravel 5.5

Laravel 5.5 tutorial for beginners : This lessons will show you how to customize default Laravel Authentication using Middleware that can login with multiple level access.

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Create new Laravel Project using composer

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel multiauth

User Migration

update user migration to add new field named with "admin"

<?php

use IlluminateSupportFacadesSchema;
use IlluminateDatabaseSchemaBlueprint;
use IlluminateDatabaseMigrationsMigration;

class CreateUsersTable extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->increments('id');
            $table->string('name');
            $table->string('email')->unique();
            $table->string('password');
            $table->rememberToken();
            $table->timestamps();
            $table->boolean('admin')->default(0);
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::dropIfExists('users');
    }
}

User Model

update the user model

<?php

namespace App;

use IlluminateNotificationsNotifiable;
use IlluminateFoundationAuthUser as Authenticatable;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
    use Notifiable;

    /**
     * The attributes that are mass assignable.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $fillable = [
        'name', 'email', 'password','admin',
    ];

    /**
     * The attributes that should be hidden for arrays.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $hidden = [
        'password', 'remember_token',
    ];
}

Run Migration

php artisan migrate

Create Laravel Authentication

php artisan make:auth

Create New Middleware

php artisan make:middleware IsAdmin

Register middleware in app\Http\Kernel.php we can register the IsAdmin middleware

<?php

namespace AppHttp;

use IlluminateFoundationHttpKernel as HttpKernel;

class Kernel extends HttpKernel
{
    /**
     * The application's global HTTP middleware stack.
     *
     * These middleware are run during every request to your application.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $middleware = [
        IlluminateFoundationHttpMiddlewareCheckForMaintenanceMode::class,
        IlluminateFoundationHttpMiddlewareValidatePostSize::class,
        AppHttpMiddlewareTrimStrings::class,
        IlluminateFoundationHttpMiddlewareConvertEmptyStringsToNull::class,
        AppHttpMiddlewareTrustProxies::class,
        AppHttpMiddlewareIsAdmin::class,
    ];

    /**
     * The application's route middleware groups.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $middlewareGroups = [
        'web' => [
            AppHttpMiddlewareEncryptCookies::class,
            IlluminateCookieMiddlewareAddQueuedCookiesToResponse::class,
            IlluminateSessionMiddlewareStartSession::class,
            // IlluminateSessionMiddlewareAuthenticateSession::class,
            IlluminateViewMiddlewareShareErrorsFromSession::class,
            AppHttpMiddlewareVerifyCsrfToken::class,
            IlluminateRoutingMiddlewareSubstituteBindings::class,
        ],

        'api' => [
            'throttle:60,1',
            'bindings',
        ],
    ];

    /**
     * The application's route middleware.
     *
     * These middleware may be assigned to groups or used individually.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $routeMiddleware = [
        'auth' => IlluminateAuthMiddlewareAuthenticate::class,
        'auth.basic' => IlluminateAuthMiddlewareAuthenticateWithBasicAuth::class,
        'bindings' => IlluminateRoutingMiddlewareSubstituteBindings::class,
        'can' => IlluminateAuthMiddlewareAuthorize::class,
        'guest' => AppHttpMiddlewareRedirectIfAuthenticated::class,
        'throttle' => IlluminateRoutingMiddlewareThrottleRequests::class,
    ];
}

Routes (web.php)

<?php

Auth::routes();

Route::group(['middleware' => ['web','auth']], function(){
  Route::get('/', function () {
      return view('welcome');
  });

  Route::get('/home', function() {
    if (Auth::user()->admin == 0) {
      return view('home');
    } else {
      $users['users'] = AppUser::all();
      return view('adminhome', $users);
    }
  });
});

Create new Admin Page

If the users is "Admin", we will redirect to admin home pages, and if just the user will redirect into home pages

create new page in resources/view/ and named with "adminhome.blade.php"

@extends('layouts.app')

@section('content')
<div class="container">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-2">
            <div class="panel panel-default">
                <div class="panel-heading">Dashboard</div>

                <div class="panel-body">
                    @if (session('status'))
                        <div class="alert alert-success">
                            {{ session('status') }}
                        </div>
                    @endif
                    <div class="alert alert-success">
                        <p>You're logged in as ADMINISTRATOR</p>
                    </div>

                    <table class="table table-hover table-bordered">
                      <thead>
                        <tr>
                          <th width="5">No.</th>
                          <th>Member Name</th>
                          <th>Email</th>
                        </tr>
                      </thead>
                      <tbody>
                        @foreach ($users as $key => $value)
                          <tr>
                            <td>{{ $key+1 }}</td>
                            <td>{{ $value->name }}</td>
                            <td>{{ $value->email }}</td>
                          </tr>
                        @endforeach
                      </tbody>
                    </table>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
@endsection

Home.blade.php

@extends('layouts.app')

@section('content')
<div class="container">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-2">
            <div class="panel panel-default">
                <div class="panel-heading">Dashboard</div>

                <div class="panel-body">
                    @if (session('status'))
                        <div class="alert alert-success">
                            {{ session('status') }}
                        </div>
                    @endif
                    <div class="alert alert-success">
                        <p>You're logged in as USERS</p>
                    </div>

                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
@endsection

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