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Impersonate users with Backpack for Laravel

This is a simple package to allow admins impersonate users.

Install

In your terminal:

In case you want/need to publish files to further customize this package:

Usage

1- Add in your UserCrudController.

This will add a button for List and Show Operations to impersonate users.

2- Next step is to handle the logic to indicate which admins have permission to impersonate others, or can be impersonated. You just need to modify a bit your User Model to implement the interface ImpersonateInterface like this:

And then add the following two methods in your User Model:

3- Now, you just need to add the button to exit impersonating (no worries, it will only show up when needed). For example, you can add the button in topbar_right_content.blade.php like this:

4- Important — If you want to impersonate non-admin users you will need to skip the backpack middleware that determines if the user is admin. This is because this operation will need to allow your impersonated non-admin user to use a backpack route to log you back. How to do it?

• Publish the config file if you haven't done so (described here, above step one).

• Add the middleware classname like it follows, and you will be good to go:

This will allow this operation to skip that middleware when logging out impersonated non-admin users.

Credits

• Mauro Martinez Developer
• Cristian Tabacitu For creating Backpack for Laravel!