Laravel Authentication with 2 types of users

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I'm trying to wrap my head around the best approach to this problem, I'm making a web-app that is to have two types of users. - Administrator (administrators_table) - User (users_table)

The User has many many more properties than an Administrator which is relatively straight-forward. So we've separated them to different tables.

Ideally, I'd like them to use the same login form. Would my current scenario of two separate tables be recommended, or is there a better approach to this?

A further thought, would it be ideal to make the users part of the same database table, and separate the 'User details' stuff to a linked table? — HyperionX
– HyperionX, Commented Feb 20, 2018 at 3:15
You need to try multiple authentications: stackoverflow.com/a/35772716/5503275 — DsRaj
– DsRaj, Commented Feb 20, 2018 at 4:21

HyperionX · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-22 23:27:29Z

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Thank you to everyone's input. Although very good, it was a bit complex for this simple app.

We decided to merge the Admin and Users table, and have an isAdmin column and using Laravel's Middleware to separate the two roles.

answered Feb 22, 2018 at 23:27

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