How can I implement multi-table for users in Laravel in such a way that I can have many models example: (Admin, Student and Teacher)?

Currently there's only one table that Laravel uses, the users table and the User model. I want to have Teacher model and Student as well with corresponding tables (teachers and students) so that I can do 1 to many relationships like $teacher->students, or $students->teacher. I want to accomplish multi-auth and multi model users in Laravel. Thanks.

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cengkuru michael

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May 27, 2016

Ideally, all actors in your app are users hence a single users table. Now you can have a Groups table since a user can belong to Many groups. And also have a permissions tables since a group can have many permissions. In the end you'll have relationships like this.

Relationships

User belongsToMany Group
Group hasMany Permission

Tables

users
groups
users_groups (pivot)
permissions
permission_groups (pivot)

Going back to your question, a user can belong the students group and the students group can have a set permissions assigned to it.

Hope this makes sense.

rct

May 27, 2016

Thank @cengkuru, but in that case I only set permissions per group. How can I accomplish creating many models as users so that I can set relations for this each models like for example: Teacher Model - public function students() { return $this->hasMany(Student::class); }, Student Model - public function teacher () { return $this->belongsTo(Teacher:;class); }. Did you get the point?

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