How to use Sentry 2 in Laravel 4 - php

Question

I have a Personcontroller and a Festivalcontroller in my laravel4 application. The actions in those controllers can only be accessible by an administrator.
If my database only has a user with test#hotmail.com, that user can access the routes of those 2 controllers. If my database has no user with test#hotmail.com, but it has other users, those other users can't access the routes of those 2 controllers. And when my database has a user with test#hotmail.com, and has other users, everyone can access the routes of those 2 controllers.
I only want the user with email test#hotmail.com to access the routes of those controllers.
I installed Sentry2 by doing this:
In composer.json file require:
"cartalyst/sentry": "2.0.*"
Run
php composer.phar update
In app > config > app.php:
'Cartalyst\Sentry\SentryServiceProvider', => to the providers array
'Sentry' => 'Cartalyst\Sentry\Facades\Laravel\Sentry', => to the aliases array
After the installation I made the SentrySeeder file:
<?php
class SentrySeeder extends Seeder {
public function run()
{
DB::table('users')->delete();
DB::table('groups')->delete();
DB::table('users_groups')->delete();
Sentry::getUserProvider()->create(array(
'email' => 'test#hotmail.com',
'password' => "test",
'activated' => 1,
));
$user = Sentry::getUserProvider()->findByLogin('test#hotmail.com');
$adminGroup = Sentry::getGroupProvider()->findByName('Test');
$user->addGroup($adminGroup);
}
}
In my PersonController
class PersonController extends BaseController {
public function index()
{
try
{
$user = Sentry::findUserByLogin('test#hotmail.com');
if ($user)
{
$person = Person::with('user')->orderBy('person_id')->paginate(10);
return View::make('persons.index')
->with('person', $person);
}
}
catch (Cartalyst\Sentry\Users\UserNotFoundException $e)
{
echo 'User was not found.';
}
}
}
Login action in LoginController
public function login()
{
$input = Input::all();
$rules = array(
'user_email' => 'required',
'user_password' => 'required'
);
$validator = Validator::make($input, $rules);
if ($validator->fails()) {
return Redirect::to('login')
->withErrors($validator) // send back all errors to the login form
->withInput(Input::except('user_password'));
}
else {
$attempt = Auth::attempt([
'user_email' => $input['user_email'],
'password' => $input['user_password']
]);
if ($attempt) {
return Redirect::to('/home');
}
else {
return Redirect::to('login');
}
}
Store a user in database
public function store()
{
$input = Input::all();
$rules = array(
'user_email' => 'required|unique:users|email',
'user_username' => 'required|unique:users',
);
$validator = Validator::make($input, $rules);
if($validator->passes())
{
$password = $input['user_password'];
$password = Hash::make($password);
$location = new Location();
$person = new Person();
$user = new User();
$person->person_firstname = $input['person_firstname'];
$person->person_surname = $input['person_surname'];
$user->user_username = $input['user_username'];
$user->user_email = $input['user_email'];
$user->user_password = $password;
$location->save();
$person->save();
$user->location()->associate($location);
$user->person()->associate($person);
$user->save();
Session::flash('message', 'Successfully created user!');
return Redirect::to('login');
}
else {
return Redirect::to('persons/create')->withInput()->withErrors($validator);
}
}

Answer 1

Looks like you need to use your own users table and also use Sentry's. So you'll need to add related Sentry's columns to yours. It's easy:
1) Go to vendor\cartalyst\sentry\src\migrations.
2) Create one new migration for every file you see there, example:
php artisan migrate:make add_sentry_groups_table
3) Copy the up() and down() code (ONLY!) to your new migrations.
4) And, for the users migration, you'll have to do some changes:
Instead of Schema::create('users' ... you do Schema::table('users' ..., to add more columns to your table.
Delete all commands for columns that you alread have in your current users table, examples of lines you must delete:
$table->increments('id');
$table->timestamps();
5) Run a normal ´php artisan migrate´.
After that you should have the Sentry's tables ready to work.
EDIT
As you're not using the usual 'email' and 'password' columns, publish Sentry's configuration:
php artisan config:publish cartalyst/sentry
And alter
'login_attribute' => 'user_email',