How to check user is Admin or not in laravel blade view

Question

I have

User table like

+==============+
|     User     |
+==============+
|      id      |
+--------------+
|   firstname  |
+--------------+
|    lastname  |
+--------------+
|     email    |
+--------------+
|   password   |
+--------------+

and my roles table

+==============+
|     Roles    |
+==============+
|      id      |
+--------------+
|     name     |
+--------------+

and my role_user table is

+=============+
|  role_user  |
+=============+
|   user_id   |
+-------------+
|   role_id   |
+-------------+

How can I check current logged user is admin or normal user?

Answer 1

It's not an ACL for this simple functionality you don't even need a database table roles you can add extra tinyInteger status column and add numbers for example:

• 0 = Disabled
• 1 = Visitor
• 2 = Admin.

To make it functional add following code to your User.php.

public function isDisabled ()
{
    return $this->statusCheck();
}

public function isVisitor ()
{
    return $this->statusCheck(1);
}

public function isAdmin ()
{
    return $this->statusCheck(2);
}

protected function statusCheck ($status = 0)
{
    return $this->status === $status ? true : false;
}

To check in blade template you can add

@if(Auth::user()->isDisabled())
    You are not Active
@elseif(Auth::user()->isVisitor())
    Welcome to example.com
@elseif(Auth::user()->isAdmin())
    Welcome Admin
@endif

Moreover you can make blade custom directives, paste this code to your app/providers/AppServiceProvider.php in boot() method.

// Blade custom directives for isAdmin

    Blade::directive('isAdmin', function() {
        return "<?php if(Auth::user()->isAdmin()): ?>";
    });

    Blade::directive('endisAdmin', function() {
        return "<?php endif; ?>";
    });

// Blade custom directives for isVisitor

    Blade::directive('isVisitor', function() {
        return "<?php if(Auth::user()->isVisitor()): ?>";
    });

    Blade::directive('endisVisitor', function() {
        return "<?php endif; ?>";
    });

// Blade custom directives for isDisabled

    Blade::directive('isDisabled', function() {
        return "<?php if(Auth::user()->isDisabled()): ?>";
    });

    Blade::directive('endisDisabled', function() {
        return "<?php endif; ?>";
    });

To call this you use need to write following lines in your blade view

@isAdmin()
     Welcome Admin
@endisAdmin

@isVisitor()
     Welcome to example.com
@endisVisitor

@isDisabled()
     Your are not active
@endisDisabled

In short laravel provides you a number of ways to solve a problem, it just depend on your need and application structure.