Laravel User Manager + Material Design Admin Dashboard Theme + Roles and Permissions

Introduction

In this tutorial, we will be covering how to use the Laravel User Manager, Material Design Admin Dashboard Theme, and Roles and Permissions in a Laravel application. This tutorial assumes that you have a basic understanding of Laravel and its syntax.

What is Laravel User Manager?

Laravel User Manager is a package that provides a simple and intuitive way to manage users in your Laravel application. It provides features such as user registration, login, and management, as well as support for roles and permissions.

What is Material Design Admin Dashboard Theme?

Material Design Admin Dashboard Theme is a theme for Laravel that provides a beautiful and responsive admin dashboard. It is built using Material Design, a design language developed by Google, and is highly customizable.

What are Roles and Permissions?

Roles and Permissions are a way to control what actions a user can perform in your application. For example, you may have a role called "admin" that has permission to perform certain actions, such as creating and editing posts, while a role called "user" may only have permission to view posts.

Getting Started

To get started, you will need to install the Laravel User Manager package and the Material Design Admin Dashboard Theme. You can install them using the following commands:

composer require laravel/user-manager
composer require laravel/material-design-admin-dashboard-theme

Once you have installed the packages, you will need to publish the configuration files and the theme assets. You can do this using the following commands:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Laravel UserManager UserManagerServiceProvider"
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Laravel MaterialDesignAdminDashboardTheme MaterialDesignAdminDashboardThemeServiceProvider"

Step 1: Configure the User Manager

To configure the User Manager, you will need to add the following code to your config/user-manager.php file:

'guards' => [
    'web' => [
        'driver' => 'session',
        'provider' => 'users',
    ],
],

'providers' => [
    'users' => 'AppProvidersUsersProvider',
],

'passwords' => 'users',

This code configures the User Manager to use the web guard, which is a default guard provided by Laravel, and the users provider, which is a provider that we will create later.

Step 2: Create the Users Provider

To create the UsersProvider, you will need to add the following code to your app/Providers/UsersProvider.php file:

namespace AppProviders;

use IlluminateSupportServiceProvider;
use Laravel UserManagerUserManager;

class UsersProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    public function boot()
    {
        UserManager::register();
    }

    public function register()
    {
        $this->app->bind('Laravel UserManager UserManager', function ($app) {
            return new UserManager();
        });
    }
}

This code registers the UserManager instance with the application.

Step 3: Create the User Model

To create the User model, you will need to add the following code to your app/Models/User.php file:

namespace AppModels;

use IlluminateDatabaseEloquentModel;
use Laravel UserManager TraitsHasRolesAndPermissions;

class User extends Model
{
    use HasRolesAndPermissions;
}

This code uses the HasRolesAndPermissions trait provided by the User Manager package to add roles and permissions to the User model.

Step 4: Create the Roles and Permissions

To create the roles and permissions, you will need to add the following code to your database/seeds/RolesAndPermissionsSeeder.php file:

namespace DatabaseSeeders;

use IlluminateDatabaseSeeder;
use Laravel UserManager DatabaseSeedersRolesAndPermissionsSeeder;

class RolesAndPermissionsSeeder extends Seeder
{
    public function run()
    {
        $this->call(RolesAndPermissionsSeeder::class);
    }
}

This code calls the RolesAndPermissionsSeeder seeder, which is provided by the User Manager package.

Step 5: Run the Migrations and Seeds

To run the migrations and seeds, you will need to add the following code to your database/seeds/DatabaseSeeder.php file:

namespace DatabaseSeeders;

use IlluminateDatabaseSeeder;
use IlluminateSupportFacadesDB;

class DatabaseSeeder extends Seeder
{
    public function run()
    {
        $this->call([
            RolesAndPermissionsSeeder::class,
        ]);
    }
}

This code calls the RolesAndPermissionsSeeder seeder and runs the migrations.

Step 6: Configure the Material Design Admin Dashboard Theme

To configure the Material Design Admin Dashboard Theme, you will need to add the following code to your config/theme.php file:

'theme' => 'material-design-admin-dashboard-theme',

This code sets the theme to the Material Design Admin Dashboard Theme.

Step 7: Create the Admin Dashboard

To create the admin dashboard, you will need to add the following code to your app/Http/Controllers/AdminController.php file:

namespace AppHttpControllers;

use IlluminateHttpRequest;
use Laravel UserManagerUserManager;

class AdminController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        $users = UserManager::all();
        return view('admin.index', compact('users'));
    }
}

This code retrieves all users and passes them to the index view.

Step 8: Create the Admin Index View

To create the admin index view, you will need to add the following code to your resources/views/admin/index.blade.php file:

@extends('theme::layouts.master')

@section('content')
    <h1>Admin Dashboard</h1>
    <ul>
        @foreach($users as $user)
            <li>
                {{ $user->name }}
                <ul>
                    @foreach($user->getPermissions() as $permission)
                        <li>{{ $permission }}</li>
                    @endforeach
                </ul>
            </li>
        @endforeach
    </ul>
@endsection

This code displays the admin dashboard with a list of users and their permissions.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have covered how to use the Laravel User Manager, Material Design Admin Dashboard Theme, and Roles and Permissions in a Laravel application. We have also created a simple admin dashboard that displays a list of users and their permissions. With this tutorial, you should be able to create a robust and secure user management system for your Laravel application.