protecting admin and user routes laravel 5 - php

Question

I have a common login for both admin and user. But I have created a roles in my table which looks like:
user_id role_id
1 2
2 1
3 2
where role_id 1 refers to the admin and role_id 2 refers to the user. I can attach roles to the different user as well. Now what I want is, I want to protect all admin routes and user routes.
For example, I don't want user to get any access that is meant for admin. For now, I can check whether the user is admin or user like if (Auth::user()->hasRole('admin')) or if (Auth::user()->hasRole('user')).
How should I separate my user routes from admin routes in this case? Should I make my own middleware and implement? If so, how to implement it correctly?

Answer 1

Create two middleware, for admin you can do:
<?php namespace App\Http\Middleware;
use Auth;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Routing\Middleware;
class CheckAdmin implements Middleware {
/**
* Handle an incoming request.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #param \Closure $next
* #return mixed
*/
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
if (Auth::user()->hasRole('admin'))
{
return $next($request);
}
throw new \Exception("Unauthorized");
}
}
Then enable this middleware in App\Http\Kernel
protected $routeMiddleware = [
'auth' = 'App\Http\Middleware\Authenticate',
'auth.basic' => 'Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\AuthenticateWithBasicAuth',
'checkAdmin' => 'App\Http\Middleware\CheckAdmin',
];
You can use your CheckAdmin middlware in the routes.php file or in the constructor of your Controller
In routes.php you can do:
Route::group(['middleware' => 'checkAdmin'], function () {
Route::get('admin/profile', function () {
// Uses CheckAdmin Middleware
});
});