Assign a new role in Entrust

laravel, laravel-4, php, user-roles

Solution

Here is an example function which you could use to save your roles, it accepts an array of role id's:

 /**
 * Save roles inputted from multiselect
 * @param $inputRoles
 */
public function saveRoles($inputRoles)
{
    if(! empty($inputRoles)) {
        $this->roles()->sync($inputRoles);
    } else {
        $this->roles()->detach();
    }
}

Problem

As part of my 'approval' process, I want the admin to allocate users different roles, on demand. I want to 'detach' the user's current role and add a new one. ``` $id = Input::get('submit'); $user = User::where('id','=', $id)->first(); $user->attachRole(2); $user->save(); ``` The code above gets the user's ID that I want to reassign a role to, and then the attachRole, assigned the new one, but I can't delete the previous one. However, it doesn't remove the user's previous role it was assigned to. ``` $user->detachRole(USER ID HERE); ``` doesn't seem to work. The only problem is, if it was in the 'Role' table, I could possibly use $user->roles()->delete (something like that), where has the assignment of users to roles is in the 'assigned_roles' table. Any help would be hugely appreciated.

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