Laravel Horizon - gate with different guard

Question

I would like to use admin guard for authorise viewing laravel horizon but I have to be logged in as user AND as admin.

Here is my code for HorizonServiceProvider.php

class HorizonServiceProvider extends HorizonApplicationServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * Bootstrap any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot()
    {
        parent::boot();

        // Horizon::routeSmsNotificationsTo('15556667777');
        // Horizon::routeMailNotificationsTo('example@example.com');
        // Horizon::routeSlackNotificationsTo('slack-webhook-url', '#channel');

        // Horizon::night();
    }

    /**
     * Register the Horizon gate.
     *
     * This gate determines who can access Horizon in non-local environments.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    protected function gate()
    {
        Gate::define('viewHorizon', function () {
            return \Auth::guard('admin')->check();
        });
    }
}

It works OK if I am logged in as used AND admin. But when I am logged in only as admin the result from gate is:

array:4 [▼
  "ability" => "viewHorizon"
  "result" => null
  "user" => null
  "arguments" => "[0 => null]"
]

Thanks for help

Answer 1

Probably too little too late for you, but for others searching the issue:

Laravel assumes that you use the default "web" guard and it is injecting the authenticated user (so it forces the "web" guard check).

As specified in the docs (see big "!" note), to force Laravel to not require "web" guard authentication you just need to specify $user = null , and then you can implement whatever you want.

So your case the gate function in the HorizonServiceProvider class should be something like this:

protected function gate() {

    Gate::define('viewHorizon', function ($user = null) {
        return Auth::guard('admin')->check();
    });

}