I am trying to run a check to see if the current user is in a certain role with Cartalyst's Sentinel/Sentry package.
I have found Sentinel::inRole('admin') but can't seem to get it to work. I want something like this:
if(Sentinel::getUser()->hasRole('admin'){ // do some stuff }
I've searched and searched for this and can't find an example to work with. Should I be looking more into permissions or something?
Hopefully someone out there can point me in the right direction.
Cheers
You can use inRole here, Sentinel::getUser()->inRole('role_slug');. Of course this would only work if a user is logged in.
You might wanna change it to something like this to prevent calling inRole on a non object.
if ($user = Sentinel::getUser())
{
if ($user->inRole('administrator'))
{
// Your logic
}
}
Hope that helps.
Have your User model extend Cartalyst's 'EloquentUser' model. This model has a getRoles() function that will return the roles for that user. Each user also has an inRole( $role ) function that will return true if the user has the role specified in the parameter.
Extention would look like this:
use Cartalyst\Sentinel\Users\EloquentUser;
class User extends EloquentUser implements ... {
....
}
In my opinion this is the cleanest way to accomplish what you want.
If you don't want to do that you could check permissions instead and have your permissions configured like a role
$admin = Sentinel::create()
$admin->permissions = [
'admin' => true,
];
$admin->save();
Then check the user's permissions instead of checking their role
if($admin->hasAccess('admin') { // do some stuff }
Hope this helps.
-Josh E
I first check if authorized and if so then watch what role
so works
@if(!Sentinel::guest())
@if(Sentinel::inRole('user'))
<ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
<li><a href="logout">{{trans('master.logout')}}</a></li>
</ul>
@endif
@endif
