# Multiple User Models

Laratrust supports adding roles/permissions to multiple user models.

In the config/laratrust.php file you will find an user_models array, it contains the information about the multiple user models and the name of the relationships inside the Role and Permission models. For example:

'user_models' => [
    'users' => \App\Models\User::class,
    'admins' => \App\Models\Admin::class,
],

NOTE

The value of the key in the key => value pair defines the name of the relationship inside the Role and Permission models.

It means that there are two user models using Laratrust, and the relationships in the Role, Permission and Team models are going to be called like this:

$role->users;
$role->admins();

They are Eloquent relationships, so you can also eager load and query them:

Role::with('users')->get();
Permission::whereHas('admins', fn ($query) => $query->where('active', true))->get();

Each user model must implement the Laratrust\Contracts\LaratrustUser interface and use the Laratrust\Traits\HasRolesAndPermissions trait.

NOTE

Inside the role_user and permission_user tables the user_type column will be set with the user's fully qualified class name, as the polymorphic relations describe it in Laravel docs.

If you want to use the MorphMap feature just change the use_morph_map value to true in Laratrust's configuration file. The keys of the user_models array are then stored in the user_type column.