Laravel 5.5 and Entrust

Question

I am trying to apply roles and permission on Laravel 5.5 with Entrust.

I used this, as the documentation inside the: App\models\Role.php

<?php namespace App;

use Zizaco\Entrust\EntrustRole;

class Role extends EntrustRole
{

    $owner = new Role();
    $owner->name         = 'owner';
    $owner->display_name = 'Project Owner'; // optional
    $owner->description  = 'User is the owner of a given project'; // optional
    $owner->save();

    $admin = new Role();
    $admin->name         = 'admin';
    $admin->display_name = 'User Administrator'; // optional
    $admin->description  = 'User is allowed to manage and edit other users'; // optional
    $admin->save();

    $manager = new Role();
    $manager->name         = 'manager';
    $manager->display_name = 'Company Manager'; // optional
    $manager->description  = 'User is a manager of a Department'; // optional
    $manager->save();
}

?>

However, when i am trying to assign role to a user I receiving this issue:

{
..
$owner = new Role();
$owner->name = 'owner';
...
}

"Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '$owner' (T_VARIABLE), expecting function (T_FUNCTION) or const (T_CONST)"

Can you advice me please?

Answer 1

How about a function/method ? ;)

<?php namespace App;

use Zizaco\Entrust\EntrustRole;

class Role extends EntrustRole
{

public function setup() 
{
    $owner = new Role();
    $owner->name         = 'owner';
    $owner->display_name = 'Project Owner'; // optional
    $owner->description  = 'User is the owner of a given project'; // optional
    $owner->save();

    $admin = new Role();
    $admin->name         = 'admin';
    $admin->display_name = 'User Administrator'; // optional
    $admin->description  = 'User is allowed to manage and edit other users'; // optional
    $admin->save();

    $manager = new Role();
    $manager->name         = 'manager';
    $manager->display_name = 'Company Manager'; // optional
    $manager->description  = 'User is a manager of a Department'; // optional
    $manager->save();
}
}