Voyager: How to create seperate user_admin table?

[iwasherefirst2]

• Laravel Version: v5.5.27
• Voyager Version: v1.0.11
• PHP Version: 7.1.7-1+ubuntu16.04
• Database Driver & Version: MySQL 5.7.18-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 - (Ubuntu)

I want to have users and admin_users in two separate tables.

I found that this has been asked before at https://github.com/the-control-group/voyager/issues/2354 and at https://github.com/the-control-group/voyager/issues/934 but both threads did not work out for me.

This is what I have done:

1. Created a VoyagerAdmin Model

php artisan make:mode VoyagerAdmin -m

1. Customized VoyagerAdmin Table

public function up()
{
    Schema::create('voyager_users', function (Blueprint $table) {
        $table->increments('id');
        $table->string('name');
        $table->string('email')->unique();
        $table->string('password')->nullable();
        $table->timestamps();
    });
}

1. Customized Voyager Migration

Renamed 'users' to 'voyager_users' in /database/migrations/****_**_**_*****_add_voyager_user_fields.php

1. Bind at AppServiceProvider

use TCG\Voyager\Facades\Voyager;

/**
 * Bootstrap any application services.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function boot()
{
    // Workaround for Mysql Versions < 7.
    Schema::defaultStringLength(191);

    Voyager::useModel('User', \App\VoyagerUser::class);
}

1. Updated config file:

    'user' => [
        'add_default_role_on_register' => true,
        'default_role'                 => 'user',
        'namespace'                    => App\VoyagerUser::class,
        'default_avatar'               => 'users/default.png',
    ],

1. Updated Database

php artisan migrate
php artisan voyager:install

I can create a new user with

php artisan voyager:admin [email protected] --create

However, I cannot login with that. I get the error message that these login credentials could not be found in the database.

Have I done anything wrong?

[fletch3555]

Did you check the database? Was your user created in the correct table?

Assuming it populated your voyager_users table correctly, then the next thing to check is the Auth guard. In config/auth.php, you need to configure which guard Auth will use by default. Voyager is difficult to change, so you're better off setting VoyagerUser as the default user model. Then you'll have to make the rest of your site use a different guard. I'm sure there are other ways to do it, but that's up to you to decide. This page will be helpful: https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/authentication

[iwasherefirst2]

Oh I see. I had to do change VoyagaerUser as default model for the default guard and set up a different guard for my app. Thank you, that worked.

[iwasherefirst2]

@fletch3555 I just realized that while my login with Voyager works, the default user of my application can't login anymore.

I created a second guard called normal in config/auth.php which is related to app/User:class. Inside my app\Html\Controller\Auth\LoginController I have overwritten the guard method to

use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\AuthenticatesUsers;

class LoginController extends Controller
{

    use AuthenticatesUsers;

    protected function guard()
    {
        return \Auth::guard('normal');
    }

    public function test()
    {
      dd("hi");
    }

If I try to call this LoginController via Route::get('/test', 'Auth\LoginController@test'); I get this screen:

[iwasherefirst2]

Whoups... I figured it out, its because

```
public function __construct()
{
$this->middleware('guest')->except('logout');
}

I have to change the guest middleware to

public function __construct()
{
$this->middleware('guest:normal')->except('logout');
}
```

[mandofever78]

had to do change VoyagaerUser as default model for the default guard and set up a different guard for my app

Hey @iwasherefirst2 I realize this isn't Laravel support, but I'm attempting to replicate your results and despite reading Laravel docs repeatedly, I can't seem to get this working. Would you mind posting some of what you did here to add and enable the alternate guard?

[iwasherefirst2]

@mandofever78 sure thing.

So as explained above I created an App\VoyagerAdmin which represents the admin user. I had to change the user class inside config\voyager.php :

  /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | User config
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | Here you can specify voyager user configs
    |
    */

    'user' => [
        'add_default_role_on_register' => true,
        'default_role'                 => 'user',
        'namespace'                    => App\VoyagerAdmin::class,
        'default_avatar'               => '',
    ],

Next I had to set the VoyagerAdmin as the default guard and I created a second guard called normal for the typical user. This happens in th econfig/auth.php file:

```
'defaults' => [
'guard' => 'web',
'passwords' => 'users',
],

'guards' => [
    'web' => [
        'driver' => 'session',
        'provider' => 'users',
    ],

    'api' => [
        'driver' => 'token',
        'provider' => 'users',
    ],

    'normal' => [
      'driver' => 'session',
      'provider' => 'people',
    ]
],

'providers' => [
    'users' => [
        'driver' => 'eloquent',
        'model' => App\VoyagerAdmin::class,
    ],

    'people' =>[
        'driver' => 'eloquent',
        'model' => App\User::class,
    ],
],

```

Let me know if you have any more questions

[mandofever78]

That is exactly what I needed to get it working! Thanks for the quick response. I appreciate you taking time to explain.

For others out there doing the same with an existing (and possibly conflicting) database, you may need to update a few tables after voyager:install (and before creating a new voyager admin) with this method. I had to do the following:

-manually ran migration from add_voyager_user_fields to add role_id and avatar to voyager_user table as this was not done during install
-add column voyager_user_id to user_roles table
-add column remember_token to voyager_users table
-add extends \TCG\Voyager\Models\User to VoyagerUser model
Also note that the updated model name and class names differ on the steps outlined above and I used VoyagerUser for the model AND class name throughout this modification.

[Pakinwet]

@iwasherefirst2
Hi, I can't login but I've checked, it don't have an error and can't redirect to dashboard page. So, I'd like to ask you about this, Have you ever encountered a problem like this?

[fletch3555]

This has been closed for 11 months now and was for an older version. Please open your own issue or ask in our slack group