# Introduction
Laratrust is a package that lets you add roles and permissions inside your Laravel application. All of this through a very simple configuration process and API.
Here you can see some examples:
$adminRole = Role::where('name', 'admin')->first();
$editUserPermission = Permission::where('name', 'edit-user')->first();
$user = User::find(1);
$user->addRole($adminRole);
// Or
$user->addRole('admin');
$user->givePermission($editUserPermission);
// Or
$user->givePermission('edit-user');
You can also check if a user has some permissions or roles:
$user->isAbleTo('edit-user');
$user->hasPermission('edit-user');
$user->hasRole('admin');
It also supports teams, multiple users and it has a simple admin panel and it is compatible with Laravel's policies and gates system.