Roles/Permissions: Manage Employees

Next on our list - separating user roles. In our system, we need admins to manage the system settings and employees, while the employees themselves can only manage customers and nothing else:

In this lesson, we will do the following:

• Create roles Model and Database structure
• Create a user management page (CRUD)
• Add employees to our Customers' table and form for admins to manage
• Add employee changes to our customer history
• Add an additional tab in Customers for My Customers - customers assigned to the employee

Creating Roles Model and Database structure

Let's start by creating our migration file:

Migration

Schema::create('roles', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->id();
    $table->string('name');
    $table->timestamps();
});

Then, we can fill out our Model:

app/Models/Role.php

class Role extends Model
{
    protected $fillable = ['name'];
}

Of course, we should also...