laravel-permission-extended

Extension of spatie/laravel-permission with event firing when permissions or roles are assigned or removed

• Installation
• Usage

This package use spatie/laravel-permission and allows to manage user permissions and roles in a database.

It also fire specific events when a permission or role is assigned or revoked.

Installation

This package can be used in Laravel 5.4 or higher.

You can install the package via composer:

composer require padosoft/laravel-permission-extended

In Laravel 5.5 the service provider will automatically get registered. In older versions of the framework just add the service provider in config/app.php file:

'providers' => [
    // ...
    Spatie\Permission\PermissionServiceProvider::class,
    Padosoft\Laravel\PermissionExtended\PermissionExtendedServiceProvider::class,
];

Then publish and run migrations :

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\Permission\PermissionServiceProvider" --tag="migrations"

php artisan migrate

Publish configs :

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\Permission\PermissionServiceProvider" --tag="config"

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Padosoft\Laravel\PermissionExtended\PermissionExtendedServiceProvider" --tag="config"

When published, open the config/permission.php config file and change it to uses this package's specific models

return [
    'models' => [

        /*
         * When using the "HasRoles" trait from this package, we need to know which
         * Eloquent model should be used to retrieve your permissions. Of course, it
         * is often just the "Permission" model but you may use whatever you like.
         *
         * The model you want to use as a Permission model needs to implement the
         * `Spatie\Permission\Contracts\Permission` contract.
         */

        'permission' => Padosoft\Laravel\PermissionExtended\Models\Permission::class,

        /*
         * When using the "HasRoles" trait from this package, we need to know which
         * Eloquent model should be used to retrieve your roles. Of course, it
         * is often just the "Role" model but you may use whatever you like.
         *
         * The model you want to use as a Role model needs to implement the
         * `Spatie\Permission\Contracts\Role` contract.
         */

        'role' => Padosoft\Laravel\PermissionExtended\Models\Role::class,

    ],
...

Usage

For general usage of the package please look at documentation of spatie/laravel-permission.

If you want to listen the events fired when a permission/role is assigned or revoked you can do that as follows.

1. Create a Listener class:

class PermissionsEventSubscriber
{
    public function onPermissionAssigned(PermissionAssigned $event)
    {
        //$event->permission is a Collection of Permissions
        //$event->target is an Eloquent model 
    }
}