User Registration with Administrator Approvals

Let's start by creating our Roles table:

Migration

Schema::create('roles', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->id();
    $table->string('name');
    $table->timestamps();
});

Then, we can create our Model with a few Role constants:

app/Models/Role.php:

class Role extends Model
{
    public const ADMIN = 1;
    public const USER = 2;
 
    protected $fillable = [
        'name',
    ];
}

Of course, for this to work - we need to seed these constants:

database/seeders/DatabaseSeeder.php:

use App\Models\Role;
 
// ...
 
public function run(): void
{
    // User::factory(10)->create();
 
    Role::create(['name' => 'admin']); 
    Role::create(['name' => 'user']); 
}

Once this is done, we can add a Role field to our Users table:

Migration

Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->foreignId('role_id')->constrained();
});

Then we can add the field to the user Model $fillable array and a relationship:

app/Models/User.php:

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Relations\BelongsTo; 
 
// ...
 
class User extends Authenticatable
{
    // ...
 
    protected $fillable = [
        'name',
        'email',
        'password',
        'role_id',  
    ];
 
    // ...
 
    public function role(): BelongsTo
    {
        return $this->belongsTo(Role::class);
    }
}

Last, we can seed our "super admin" user: