laravel-bannable

Laravel package to handle bannable users

Description

In many apps, your users could be banned from the platform due to various causes, i.e.: for not respecting platform's rules or for not respecting other users or simply for not paying the monthly fees :)

This package adds a banned attribute to the standard users in order to prevent the authentication of such banned users. Fully tested.

Documentation

Version Compatibility

Laravel	Bannable
5.5.x	1.1.x
5.6.x	1.2.x
5.7.x	1.3.x
5.8.x	1.4.x
6.x	2.x
7.x	3.x
8.x	4.x
9.x	5.x
10.x	10.x
11.x	11.x

Installation

Add gecche/laravel-bannable as a requirement to composer.json:

{
    "require": {
        "gecche/laravel-bannable": "10.*"
    }
}

This package makes use of the discovery feature.

Basic usage

To use the package's features, first you have to publish and to run the provided migration which simply adds a banned boolean field to the users' table.

Then, if you use Eloquent users you have to add the bannable features to the User model class:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Gecche\Bannable\BannableServiceProvider"

Then, if you use Eloquent users you have to add the bannable features to the User model class:

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Gecche\Bannable\Bannable;
use Gecche\Bannable\Contracts\Bannable as BannableContract;

class User extends Authenticatable implements BannableContract
{
    use Notifiable;
    use Bannable;

...

Finally, you have to change the auth.php configuration, changing the user provider's driver to eloquent-bannable

'providers' => [
        'users' => [
            'driver' => 'eloquent-bannable',
            'model' => App\User::class,
        ],
    ],

That's it! From now on, if an user has the banned attribute set to true, it will not be able to authenticate to the platform.

The package provides a database-bannable user provider's driver too.

Change the name of the "banned" attribute

To change the name of the "banned" attribute, simply override in you Eloquent User class the getBannedName method, replacing the banned name with whatever name you want:

    /**
     * Get the column name for the "banned" value.
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getBannedName()
    {
        return 'banned';
    }

Remember to change the name of the database field too!

Ban and Unban users

The Gecche\Bannable\Bannable trait also provides two simple methods, namely ban and unban which obviously ban and unban the user. Both methods also fire a correspondent event, namely Gecche\Bannable\Events\Banned and Gecche\Bannable\Events\Unbanned events.