Laravel 5.x Cookbook

Using policies and guard to protect user pages

Here, I am going to show how we can use gate to keep users from deleting other people's Favorites.

Getting ready

A fresh install of Laravel will do. But if you have followed along this far, you will have all the routes and controllers in place.

How to do it...

1. Using Artisan, we will make a policy as follows:

   > php artisan make:policy FavoriteDeletePolicy
   

2. It will create a file called app/Policies/FavoriteDeletePolicy.php.
3. Then, we register it with the app/Providers/AuthServiceProvider.php class:
   

   Register Policy

4. Now, we update the policy to have delete just as model:
5. Then, we will plug the gate into the controller ...