Laravel 5.3 - Best way to implement Entrust role on signup?

Question

I'm working with Laravel 5.3 and I'm trying to set a role when someone signs up, I've used the Zizaco Entrust library.

I'm unsure on the best way to achieve something like this.

I tried to do this inside RegisterController's create method like below:

protected function create(array $data)
{
    return User::create([
        'name' => $data['name'],
        'email' => $data['email'],
        'password' => bcrypt($data['password']),
    ]);

    $user = User::where('email', '=', $data['email'])->first();

    // role attach alias
    $user->attachRole($employee);
}

But obviously that's not right. So I'm a bit unsure on what the best practice is with this sort of thing.

Answer 1

If, as your comment on the OP suggests, you always want to assign the same role to a registered user, you can use a Model Observer for this - it's really simple.

// app/Observers/UserObserver.php

<?php namespace App\Observers;

use App\Models\User;
use App\Models\Role; // or the namespace to the Zizaco Role class

class UserObserver {

    public function created( User $user ) {
        $role = Role::find( 1 ); // or any other way of getting a role
        $user->attachRole( $role );
}

Then you simply register the observer in your AppServiceProvider:

// app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php

use App\Models\User;
use App\Observers\UserObserver;

class AppServiceProvider extends Provider {

    public function boot() {
        User::observe( new UserObserver );
        // ...
    }

    // ...

}