I want to ask how to make two types of users in laravel. I have two tables, one for the customer and one for the client and my question is how to make that difference. Do I have to make two different models or to use model User and make some functions in middleware?
Thank you.
If you're looking for the simpliest solution, you can add role column to users table. Then you can check if user is a client or a customer globally with:
if (auth()->user()->role === 1) {
// It's a client.
}
You can add some helper methods to check if user is a client or a customer:
public function isClient()
{
return auth()->user() && auth()->user()->role === 1;
}
To open the part of the website for client only you should use route groups and middleware.
User model. Store same data (email, password, name etc.) in User model and everything else in ClientProfile and CustomerProfile, for example. If your app has a lot of relationships and complicated queries, I'd recommend you to store all users related data in a single users table.I've run into the same situation and I've resolved it by using a package that handles multi-authentication: Check out this package:
There are also a blog post about this situation:
and of course more StackOverflow questions:
