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Laravel Spatie unable to restrict UserController


Currently I have users.index blade which I would like to restrict. However, I failed to restrict it.

I have tried to create another test blade and a TestController and I have set permission to it and it works fine.

However with UserController, there is just no way to restrict Users from accessing it:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Spatie\Permission\Models\Role;
use Spatie\Permission\Models\Permission;
use DB;

    class TestController extends Controller
    {
        /**
         * Restricting pages
         */
            public function __construct()
        {
            $this -> middleware('permission:test-list', ['only' => ['index']]);
        }
        /**
         * Display a listing of the resource.
         *
         * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
         */
        public function index()
        {
            return view('test.index');
        }

        /**
         * Show the form for creating a new resource.
         *
         * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
         */
        public function create()
        {
            //
        }

        /**
         * Store a newly created resource in storage.
         *
         * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
         * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
         */
        public function store(Request $request)
        {
            //
        }

        /**
         * Display the specified resource.
         *
         * @param  int  $id
         * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
         */
        public function show($id)
        {
            //
        }

        /**
         * Show the form for editing the specified resource.
         *
         * @param  int  $id
         * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
         */
        public function edit($id)
        {
            //
        }

        /**
         * Update the specified resource in storage.
         *
         * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
         * @param  int  $id
         * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
         */
        public function update(Request $request, $id)
        {
            //
        }

        /**
         * Remove the specified resource from storage.
         *
         * @param  int  $id
         * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
         */
        public function destroy($id)
        {
            //
        }
    }

views/test/index.blade.php

@extends('layouts.app')
@section('content') 


<p>Testing Page</p>
@endsection

These are the results if I don't permit a particular user role to access this page.

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So the above is the correct behavior. However when it comes to user.index , I applied the same technique in the constructor of the UserController but it doesn't work

app/Http/Controllers/UserController

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\User;
use Spatie\Permission\Models\Role;
use DB;
use Hash;

class UserController extends Controller
{
    public function construct() 
    {
        $this -> middleware('permission:user-list', ['only' => ['index']]);

    }
    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index(Request $request)
    {
        $data = User::orderBy('id','DESC') -> paginate(5);
        return view('users.index' , compact('data')) -> with('i' , ($request->input('page', 1) - 1) * 5);
    }

    /**
     * Show the form for creating a new resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function create()
    {
        $roles = Role::pluck('name','name') -> all();
        return view('users.create',compact('roles'));
    }

    /**
     * Store a newly created resource in storage.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function store(Request $request)
    {
        $this->validate($request, [
            'name' => 'required',
            'email' => 'required|email|unique:users,email',
            'password' => 'required|same:confirm-password',
            'roles' => 'required'
        ]);
        $input = $request -> all();
        $input['password'] = Hash::make($input['password']);
        $user = User::create($input);
        $user -> assignRole($request -> input('roles'));
        return redirect() -> route('users.index') -> with('success','User created successfully');
    }

    /**
     * Display the specified resource.
     *
     * @param  int  $id
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function show($id)
    {
        $user = User::find($id);
        return view('users.show',compact('user'));
    }

    /**
     * Show the form for editing the specified resource.
     *
     * @param  int  $id
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function edit($id)
    {
        $user = User::find($id);
        $roles = Role::pluck('name','name') -> all();
        $userRole = $user->roles -> pluck('name','name') -> all();
        return view('users.edit',compact('user','roles','userRole'));
    }

    /**
     * Update the specified resource in storage.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
     * @param  int  $id
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function update(Request $request, $id)
    {
        $this -> validate($request, [
            'name' => 'required',
            'email' => 'required|email|unique:users,email,'.$id,
            'password' => 'same:confirm-password',
            'roles' => 'required'
        ]);
        $input = $request->all();
        if( ! empty($input['password'])) { 
            $input['password'] = Hash::make($input['password']);
        } else {
            $input = array_except($input,array('password'));    
        }
        $user = User::find($id);
        $user -> update($input);
        DB::table('model_has_roles') -> where('model_id',$id) -> delete();
        $user -> assignRole($request -> input('roles'));
        return redirect() -> route('users.index') -> with('success','User updated successfully');
    }

    /**
     * Remove the specified resource from storage.
     *
     * @param  int  $id
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function destroy($id)
    {
        User::find($id) -> delete();
        return redirect() -> route('users.index')  -> with('success','User deleted successfully');
    }
}

Result [I am still able to view this Blade in front end despite not having the permission to view this page]

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This is my role-has-permission tablerole-has-permission

This is my role table role

This is my permission table permissions

This is my model-has-roles table model-has-roles

This is my model-has-permissions table model-has-permissions


Solution

  • If you want to restrict specific routes or all you can do something like this:

    Route::middleware(['auth', 'permission:user-list'])->group(function (){
    
    Route::get('/create', 'WelcomeController@create')->name('welcome');
     ...
     ...
     ..
    
    });
    

    or you can replace

    public function construct() 
    {
        $this -> middleware('permission:user-list', ['only' => ['index']]);
    
    }
    

    to

    public function construct() 
    {
        $this -> middleware('permission:user-list')->except(['index']);
    
    }