Policies (Laravel Forum 4.x)

Policies

Four Authorization Policies are defined to provide default permission checks. You can override them and change the corresponding namespaces specified in the forum.integration.policies config value to allow or deny forum abilities to different users.

Note that every policy method must return a boolean (true to allow or false to deny).

Forum

Riari\Forum\Policies\ForumPolicy

This policy defines a few top-level abilities that don’t apply to a specific category, thread or post.

Methods in this policy accept a $user parameter.

Ability	Description
createCategories	Allows creating categories at any level.
manageCategories	Encompasses category modifying/deleting abilities.
moveCategories	Allows relocating and reordering categories.
renameCategories	Allows changing a category’s title and description.
markNewThreadsAsRead	Allows marking new/updated threads as ‘read’.
viewTrashedThreads	Allows viewing threads that have been soft-deleted.
viewTrashedPosts	Allows viewing posts that have been soft-deleted.

Category

Riari\Forum\Policies\CategoryPolicy

This policy defines abilities pertaining to individual categories.

Methods in this policy accept $user and $category parameters.

Ability	Description
createThreads	Allows new thread creation in the category.
manageThreads	Encompasses thread modifying/deleting abilities in the category.
deleteThreads	Allows deleting threads in the category.
enableThreads	Allows enabling or disabling thread creation in the category.
moveThreadsFrom	Allows moving threads from the category.
moveThreadsTo	Allows moving threads to the category.
lockThreads	Allows (un)locking of threads in the category.
pinThreads	Allows (un)pinning of threads in the category.
view	Allows viewing the category (if it’s set to be private).
delete	Allows deletion of the category.

Thread

Riari\Forum\Policies\ThreadPolicy

This policy defines abilities pertaining to individual threads.

Methods in this policy accept $user and $thread parameters.

Ability	Description
deletePosts	Allows deleting posts in the thread.
rename	Allows renaming the thread.
reply	Allows replying to the thread (creating a new post).
delete	Allows deletion of the thread.

Post

Riari\Forum\Policies\PostPolicy

This policy defines abilities pertaining to individual posts.

Methods in this policy accept $user and $post parameters.

Ability	Description
edit	Allows editing the post.
delete	Allows deletion of the post. Depends on ThreadPolicy’s deletePosts ability.