laravel-extended-user

This Laravel package adds profile page, account page, and extra features to Laravel's built-in Auth system

Requirements

• Bootstrap 4
• Laravel 5.3+

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Installation

It is recommended to install this package in a fresh installation of Laravel.

Laravel's built-in Auth System

This package is integrated with Laravel's built-in Auth System, so you must first run this command if you have not run it yet:

php artisan make:auth

Now go to your (env) file and make sure that you have selected your database.

Install the package using composer

Now install the package using composer by running the following command:

composer require aliabdulaziz/laravel-extended-user

Add the service provider (for Laravel < 5.5)

Go to: (Your Laravel App) --> config --> app.php

and add the following line under 'Package Service Providers' comment:

Aliabdulaziz\LaravelExtendedUser\LaravelExtendedUserServiceProvider::class

Publish the config file

Run the following command to publish the package config file:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Aliabdulaziz\LaravelExtendedUser\LaravelExtendedUserServiceProvider" --tag=config

The config file is named (laravelextendeduser.php) and will be located in the 'config' folder.

Publish the assets (CSS and JS files)

Run the following command to publish the package assets:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Aliabdulaziz\LaravelExtendedUser\LaravelExtendedUserServiceProvider" --tag=assets

Migrate

Run the artisan migrate command to create the users table:

this command will also migrate the package migration file by which the profile field is added to the users table.

php artisan migrate

Create the symbolic link

The following command will create a symbolic link from 'public/storage' to 'storage/app/public'. This is neccessary to access the user profile image (avatar).

php artisan storage:link

Access 'Profile' and 'Account' pages

Now you can access the 'profile' and the 'account' pages by visiting the following routes:

• /profile
• /account

Customization

To customize the package default views publish them to your views folder by running the following command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Aliabdulaziz\LaravelExtendedUser\LaravelExtendedUserServiceProvider" --tag=views

Now make whatever customization you want on the published views.

you can also publish the assets source files (sass and js files) by running the following command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Aliabdulaziz\LaravelExtendedUser\LaravelExtendedUserServiceProvider" --tag=src

these files will be located in (Your Laravel app) --> resources --> assets --> vendor --> laravelextendeduser.