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Dynamically configurable access control for Laravel applications..

install

composer require Pollob666/acl

configure

In your laravel config/app.php under providers add

Pollob666\Acl\AclServiceProvider::class

publish

php artisan vendor:publish

This command will publish view files inside views/vendor/acl, seed files inside the databases/seed and a config file config/acl.php.

seed

At your DatabaseSeeder.php under database/seeds add the following lines

$this->call(UserTableSeeder::class); //optional        
$this->call(RoleTableSeeder::class);
$this->call(ResourceTableSeeder::class);
$this->call(PermissionTableSeeder::class);
$this->call(UserRoleTableSeeder::class);

NOTE: If you see any kind of class not found type error try running composer dump-autoload

artisan

This library comes with an artisan command acl:resource to automatically create all the resources (controller@action) available in your project under app/Http/Controllers directory. To activate this command you need to add these following lines to your app/Console/Kernel.php file.

protected $commands = [
    \Pollob666\Acl\Commands\AclResource::class
];

@annotation

Acl library now has two annotation support @resource, and @allowRole to be used with controller action

/**
* @resource('able to see home')
* @allowRole('Default, Admin')
*/
public function index()
{
    return view('home');
}

NOTE: by default developer role has the highest permission level, and it doesn't need to be mentioned in the @allowRole annotation. If you remove the @allowRole annotation it won't delete the permissions from the database, but if you change the role list in the annotation then it will update the databased accordingly.

middleware

This ACL library comes with two middleware as shown below. AuthenticateWithAcl is the middleware you need. The other ResourceMaker middle ware is just a helper to create resource dynamically if it doesn't exists in the first place and assign permission for it to the developer role.

In your kernal.php file add this lines

'auth.acl' => \Pollob666\Acl\Middleware\AuthenticateWithAcl::class,        
'resource.maker' => \Pollob666\Acl\Middleware\ResourceMaker::class,

In your route/web.php file add this lines

Route::group(['middleware' => ['resource.maker','auth.acl']], function () {    
    Route::get('/home', 'HomeController@index');    
});

IMPORTANT: resource.maker must have to be placed before auth.acl. In production you can remove resource.maker once you have all the resource generated.

Role & Resource UI

To access role visit YOUR-HOST/role url

To access resource UI visit YOUR-HOST/resource url

helpers

has_access checks for if a role has access to a specific controller action.

@if(has_access('User\UserController@getIndex'))
OR
@if(has_access('UserController@getIndex'))

has_group_access checks for if a role has access to a specific controller

@if(has_group_access(['User-User','User-Role','User-Resource']))
OR
@if(has_group_access('User-User'))

@nullsafe() checks for whether any of the object property is null or not in a fluent interface ($obj->prop->value), if the chain is broken it will simply return an empty string and prevent showing up call to a member function of a non-object exception.

Blade example:

{{ @nullsafe($obj->prop->value) }}

Credit(Acknowledgement):

Thanks to Mahbubul Hasan Uzzal for his "https://github.com/mahabubulhasan/acl" package. This package is just an improvement of his codebase for laravel 6 applications and some additional features.