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Reputation: 597

Laravel 5, authenticating and displaying user roles

I am very new to using pivot tables full stop never mind within Laravel, my apps have never been too complicated. Here is my issue.

I have setup a new test site, it has 3 tables.

users
roles
user_role

In the User model I have defined the relationship with the Role model as:

public function roles()
{
    return $this->belongsToMany('App\Role');
}

Ok, so this should be easy enough I thought. First of all authenticating a user is simple 

Auth::user();

Keeping this very simple all I really want to do is display the role or roles the user has. If I put this in a view:

Aith::user()->roles;

I get the following result

[{"id":"7","name":"Administrator","created_at":"2015-03-19      00:14:53","updated_at":"2015-03-19 00:14:53","pivot":{"user_id":"1","role_id":"7"}}]

Now that is spot on, however I will need to sound totally daft here. How do I just get it to return the role name?

Instead of the result above I just simply want it to display:

Administrator

Nothing more.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4092

Answers (1)

Dallin
Dallin

Reputation: 1074

either this to get the first record

Auth::user()->roles->first()->name

or use a loop

@foreach(Auth::user()->roles as $role)
    {{ $role->name }}
@endforeach

Upvotes: 6

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