Laravel Cartalyst Sentinel - Adding a username column to users table (What is the right way)

Question

I\'ve pulled in cartalyst/sentinel and i\'ve run the migrations required to generate the tables

php artisan migrate --package=cartalyst/sentinel

Answer 1

Almost. You have to create your own User clas, extending vendor/cartalyst/sentinel/src/Users/EloquentUser.php:

use Cartalyst\Sentinel\Users\EloquentUser as CartalystUser;

class User extends CartalystUser {

    protected $fillable = [
        'email',
        'username', /* i added this */
        'password',
        'last_name',
        'first_name',
        'permissions',
    ];

}

Publish Sentinel's config:

php artisan config:publish cartalyst/sentinel

And in the config file, set the user model to your own:

'users' => [

    'model' => 'Your\Namespace\User',

],