Let's start with authentication, even if this subject seems to be non Sharp related: its is, actually, and without a bit of configuration nothing will work, because Sharp can't be used as a guest.
Sharp uses the standard Laravel authentication.
The Sharp login form asks for a login and a password field; to handle the authentication, Sharp has to know what attributes it must test in your User model. Defaults are email and password, and can be overriden in the Sharp config:
// in config/sharp.php
"auth" => [
"login_attribute" => "login",
"password_attribute" => "pwd",
"display_attribute" => "name",
]The third attribute, display_attribute, is used to display the user name in the Sharp UI. Default is name.
It's very likely that you don't want to authorize all users to access Sharp. You can hook into the the Laravel custom guards functionality, with one config key:
//in config/sharp.php
"auth" => [
"guard" => "sharp",
]Of course, this implies that you defined a "sharp" guard in config/auth.php, as detailed in the Laravel documentation.
If you want a simple way to authorize some users to access Sharp in a project where you have other users, you can define an auth check rather than using custom guard.
First write a class which implements Code16\Sharp\Auth\SharpAuthenticationCheckHandler:
class SharpCheckHandler implements SharpAuthenticationCheckHandler
{
/**
* @param $user
* @return bool
*/
public function check($user): bool
{
return $user->hasGroup('sharp');
}
}Perform in the check() method any test you need to make on the authenticated user.
Finally enable this feature adding a config key:
//in config/sharp.php
"auth" => [
"check_handler" => \App\Sharp\Auth\SharpCheckHandler::class,
]And you are good to go.
next chapter : Building an Entity List.