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unstoppablecarl/arbiter
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Manage Laravel User abilities that target Users

0.2.3(7y ago)311MITPHPPHP >=5.6.4

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Arbiter
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[](#arbiter)

Manage Laravel User abilities that target Users.

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About
-----

[](#about)

Determining a way to authorize what actions can be performed by one User on another may seem like a simple problem at first. Most Role based permission modules are designed to allow multiple roles per user. This is an extremely powerful and flexible design pattern but creates a hard to define authorization case: When User-A can *update* users with Role-1, and User-B has Role-1 and Role-2, how should your application determine if User-A *update* User-B?

Arbiter provides a solution to this problem without getting in the way of an existing or separate multi-role based authorization system.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP >= 5.5.9
- Laravel >= 5.2

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

The preferred method of installation is via [Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/unstoppablecarl/arbiter) and [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/). Run the following command to install the package and add it as a requirement to your project's `composer.json`:

```
composer require unstoppablecarl/arbiter
```

Overview
--------

[](#overview)

Each User has exactly one **Primary Role**. Primary Roles are used to determine what actions a user can perform on other users and vice-versa. Each Primary Role is identified with a unique name string.

The `UserWithPrimaryRole` interface is implemented on the User model.

```