Need help in creating a user in Laravel with roles - php

Question

I followed a nice tutorial on how to create roles and how to use gates with Laravel.
I can seed users with roles and edit them, but I would like to be able to create a user and give him/her one or more roles and I don't know where to start (I'm not a pro, but I need to finish this app).
Here's all the code I can show you so far :
Users Controller :
public function edit(User $user, $id)
{
$user = User::findOrFail($id);
$roles = Role::all();
return view('admin.users.edit',compact('user', 'roles'));
}
/**
* Update the specified resource in storage.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #param \App\User $user
* #return \Illuminate\Http\Response
*/
public function update(Request $request, User $user, $id)
{
$user = User::findOrFail($id);
$user->roles()->sync($request->roles);
$user->name = $request->name;
$user->email = $request->email;
$user->save();
return redirect()->route('admin.utilisateurs.index');
}
Roles Table :
public function up()
{
Schema::create('roles', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->id();
$table->string('name');
$table->timestamps();
});
}
Pivot Table :
public function up()
{
Schema::create('role_user', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->id();
$table->BigInteger('role_id')->unsigned()->onDelete('cascade');
$table->BigInteger('user_id')->unsigned()->onDelete('cascade');
$table->timestamps();
});
}
Edit blade file with checkboxes :
<div class="block-content">
<div class="form-group">
#foreach ($roles as $role)
<div class="form-group form-check">
<input type="checkbox" class="form-check-input" name="roles[]"
value="{{ $role->id }}" id="{{ $role->id }}"
#if ($user->roles->pluck('id')->contains($role->id)) checked #endif>
<label class="" for="{{ $role->id }}">{{ $role->name }}</label>
</div>
#endforeach
</div>
</div>
The thing is that I don't really know how to write my code on the Create Blade File.
Here's the create method on the controller (not sure if it's correct or not) :
public function store(Request $request, User $user)
{
$user = new User();
$user->roles()->sync($request->roles);
$user->name = $request->name;
$user->email = $request->email;
$user->save();
return redirect()->route('admin.utilisateurs.index')->with('success','Utilisateur ajouté');
}
Thanks for reading this long message!
Peace

Answer 1

on create blade it's almost as same as edit blade. you just need not to check for existing roles.
//rest of the form first like user name and email
<div class="block-content">
<div class="form-group">
#foreach ($roles as $role)
<div class="form-group form-check">
<input type="checkbox" class="form-check-input" name="roles[]" value="{{ $role->id }}" id="{{ $role->id }}">
<label class="" for="{{ $role->id }}">{{ $role->name }}</label>
</div>
#endforeach
</div>
</div>
and then in controller instead of sync just use attach
public function store(Request $request)
{
$user = new User();
$user->name = $request->name;
$user->email = $request->email;
$user->save();
$user->roles()->attach($request->roles);
return redirect()->route('admin.utilisateurs.index')->with('success','Utilisateurajouté');
}
look i have removed model binding in store function. it's not necessary in here. and attached roles after saving the user. docs on attach and sync in here.