Looking for some helps in adding policy to my laravel projects - laravel

Question

I am new in learning laravel. Currently I have been stuck in the Laravel Policy,could you please kindly help with directing me how to add policy to my project?
I would like to make just only the Administrator User be able to see the 'Administration Dashboard' by using Laravel Policies Rules but failed. Actually every registered user is able to see that entrance(just like the attached picture showing below).
The user name is uu#gmail.com and the password is uuuuuu.
Please go to my testing website http://lookoko.com/ and log with the user name and password you will see that Administration Dashboard list in the drop-down lists.

Answer 1

To create a new middleware, use the make:middleware Artisan command:
php artisan make:middleware AdminMiddleware
This command will place a new AdminMiddleware class within your app/Http/Middleware directory. In this middleware, we will only allow access to the route if the logged-in user is admin. Otherwise, we will redirect the users back to the home URI.
<?php
namespace App\Http\Middleware;
use Closure;
class AdminMiddleware
{
/**
* Handle an incoming request.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #param \Closure $next
* #return mixed
*/
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
if (! auth()->user()->is_admin) {
return redirect()->route('home');
}
return $next($request);
}
}
Here I am assumming you have a column in user table named is_admin
Registering Middleware
You should assign the middleware a key in your app/Http/Kernel.php file. By default, the $routeMiddleware property of this class contains entries for the middleware included with Laravel. To add your own, simply append it to this list and assign it a key of your choosing. For example:
protected $routeMiddleware = [
'auth' => \Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\Authenticate::class,
...
'throttle' => \Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\ThrottleRequests::class,
'admin' => \App\Http\Middleware\AdminMiddleware::class,
];
Once the middleware has been defined in the HTTP kernel, you may use the group method to assign middleware to group of routes:
Route::group(['middleware' => ['admin']], function () {
// all your admin routes comes here
});
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