Laravel 5 and Sentinel 2 - laravel-5.1

Question

I'm a complete starter using laravel 5.1. I was a PHP developer by 3 to 4 years and between those I was allways working with Java EE and I just came back to PHP environement and found a complete new list of frameworks.
After a little research, and using some surveys results, I found that Laravel is the ultimate one. Now I used Laragon to install it successfully and have my first fresh application running. I learning a little about how a route works and that's ok.
Now I need to use Sentinel 2.0 in order to apply the right roles/auth to my application and then add the socialize part.
So to do that, I need to know few things :
Is there any way to "completely" get rid of the Auth component beside removing the controller Auth folder and the route in routes.php ?
Is there any tutorial (as I can't find) telling how to REALLY include the sentinel means how to create a simple view with all what it needs (controller, vars, routes ....)
Thank you

Answer 1

Yes, you can. For example, this is my code for API rest with JWT and Sentinel. You can seed your database with Sentinel:
Create roles
Example EXA Role
$role = \Sentinel::getRoleRepository()->createModel()->create([
'name' => 'Example',
'slug' => 'EXA',
]);
$role->permissions = [
'servicio_dash' => true,
'servicio_widget' => true,
];
$role->save();
User Role USR
$role = \Sentinel::getRoleRepository()->createModel()->create([
'name' => 'User',
'slug' => 'USR',
]);
$role->permissions = [
'servicio_dash' => true,
'servicio_widget' =>false,
];
$role->save();
Create 50users and asignate EXA role(Using faker)
$usr_role = \Sentinel::findRoleBySlug('EXA');
factory(App\User::class, 50)->make()->each(function ($u) use ($usr_role) {
\Sentinel::registerAndActivate($u['attributes']);
});
Bonus Track: Factory example
$factory->define(App\User::class, function (Faker\Generator $faker) {
return [
'email' => $faker->safeEmail,
'password' => 'p4ssw0rd',
'first_name' => $faker->firstName,
'last_name' => $faker->lastName,
'recycle' => false,
'phone' => $faker->phoneNumber,
'alt_email' => $faker->email
];
});
Only one user
$yo = factory(App\User::class)->make(['email' => 'jpaniorte#openmailbox.org']);
\Sentinel::registerAndActivate($yo['attributes']);
$jperez = User::where('email', 'jpaniorte#openmailbox.org')->firstOrFail();
$epa_role->users()->attach($jperez);
Authenticate Controller for API REST
public function authenticateCredentials(Request $request)
{
$credentials = $request->only('email', 'password');
$user = \Sentinel::authenticate($credentials);
return response()->json($user);
}
Authenticate with token (use JWT) and sentinel
public function authenticate(Request $request)
{
// grab credentials from the request
$credentials = $request->only('email', 'password');
try {
// attempt to verify the credentials and create a token for the user
if (!$token = JWTAuth::attempt($credentials)) {
return response()->json(['error' => 'invalid_credentials'], 401);
}
} catch (JWTException $e) {
// something went wrong whilst attempting to encode the token
return response()->json(['error' => 'could_not_create_token'], 500);
}
// all good so return the token
return response()->json(compact('token'));
}
Note: For this, you need configure JWT options with custom Auth provider, you can find this here
In any controller
public function hasPermission($type)
{
//$sentinel = \Sentinel::findById(\JWTAuth::parseToken()->authenticate()->id); //->this is for a token
$sentinel = \Sentinel::findById(1); //if you now the id
if($sentinel->hasAccess([$type]))
return response()->json(true, 200);
//yout custom handle for noAccess here
}