How to check user group for multiple methods at once?

[cornejobarraza]

Hi everyone!

Shield has helped me so much in a project I'm working on right now but I'm not sure about the following 🤔

Right now I'm passing a check to all my methods inside my controller, for example:

$user = auth()->user();

if ($user->inGroup('admin')) {
     return view('management/home');
} else {
     return redirect()->to(base_url('/'))->with('error', 'You have no permission to see this page...');
}

This works great but I have to repeat myself for every method I have...

Is there a way I can perform this check for multiple methods inside a controller? Thanks!

[datamweb]

Hi, Thank you for your positive energy.

The method you suggested works, but it is not the most correct method.

We have 6 filters in Shield, in this regard you should use filter group.

Everything you need is explained Authorizing via Routes

Note There are different ways to use filters in CodeIgniter4, you can read the full description of how to use filters filters.

if you think it is still unclear let us know.

[cornejobarraza]

Yes that worked! I didn't notice I was getting Shield from the beta releases instead of dev-develop, so it wasn't working because some files were missing.

Also, in the filters file I had to do it like this so it worked, otherwise it said an alias was missing for the filter:

public $filters = [
    // ...
    'group' => ['before' => ['admin/*']],
];

And then on the routes I specified group:admin,superadmin for the filter as specified on the docs:

// ...
$routes->group('admin', ['filter' => 'group:admin,superadmin'], static function ($routes) {
    $routes->get('users', 'Management\Users::index');
});

[datamweb]

Also, in the filters file I had to do it like this so it worked, otherwise it said an alias was missing for the filter:

Documents were updated in this regard. Thanks. see #600

[cornejobarraza]

Also, in the filters file I had to do it like this so it worked, otherwise it said an alias was missing for the filter:

Documents were updated in this regard. Thanks. see #600

Glad to be helping a bit, thanks for all the great resources and Shield!