Laravel Project Demo--role management

Source code: https://github.com/cindy-xing-wang/laravelDemo

How to run Laravel project locally: https://cindy-xing-wang.github.io/2021/01/24/5-ReplayLaravelProject/

Another similar project: https://github.com/cindy-xing-wang/realHealthyMe

0. Basic development workflow

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Basic development workflow

As laravel UI package has built-in authentication feature, the User model, AuthController and user migration file has been created automatically. Adding new entities need to use PHP artisan to create Model, migration file, Controller. Below is the demo development in detail.

1. Create Laravel project skeleton

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laravel new laravelDemo
composer require laravel/ui
php artisan ui bootstrap –auth

2. Connect with database (MySQL)

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Database setting in .evn file

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Connect with database in XAMPP

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Laravel welcome page local address

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Laravel welcome page with login & Register

3. Add attributes in User Model (etc. role_id) and update migration file

User model and user migration file are created by Laravel. We only need to add the attributes. However, after running migration file, if we want to alter the table(etc. add another attribute in user model), we can either roll back the last migration and modify the migration file and run migrate again or we need to create a new migration file to add the new attribute.
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User Model

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user migration file

4.Run migration to create Users table in database

1	php artisan migrate

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users table has been created through migration file

5. Create Role model & role migration file

1 2	php artisan make:model php artisan make:migration create_roles _table

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update role migration file

6. Run migration to create Roles table in database

1	php artisan migrate

Note : run migration whenever the migration file is changed to make sure the database is up-to-date step by step

7. Seeding data into roles table (ect. admin and staff roles)

1	php artisan make:seeder Role

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update role seeder file

1	php artisan db:seed –class Role

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update role seeder file

8. Update RegisterController

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Update RegisterController

9. Register the first User

Anyone register from register page will be ‘staff’ role.

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Register the first User

10. Redirect to dashboard

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Redirect to dashboard

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Add dashboard route in web.php

11. Design dashboard

I use ThemeKit as the template for the UI

12. Add staff route (Only admin role is able to visit this route)

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Add staff route

13. Create StaffController

1	php artisan make:controlle StaffController -r

By adding -r flag, the file will automatically creating index, create, show, update, destroy functions.

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Create StaffController

14. Create middleware to protect admin route

1	php artisan make:middleware Admin

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Add admin to middleware

Protect admin route

Add admin to middleware

Protect admin route

15. Repeat the process to create sub-sections

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create sub-section route

create sub-section route