How to Protect the admin Panel in Laravel 5.2
<p>I have created an eCommerace Application which has admin panel and userview( store for products ) , I want admin to access admin panel while other users to access only specific URLs and products details etc. I have installed Authentication to my Application via <code>php artisan make:auth</code> and it is working fine but what I want to do is now apply a filter which will show admin panel to ADMIN only and store will be displayed to other users.</p>

<p>I have declared a Boolean field in my database which will hold value 0 by default for common users and will hold 1 for admins.</p>

<p><strong>Migrations:</strong></p>

<pre><code>Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table-&gt;increments('id');
            $table-&gt;string('name');
            $table-&gt;string('email')-&gt;unique();
            $table-&gt;string('password', 60);
            $table-&gt;boolean('admin')-&gt;default(0);
            $table-&gt;rememberToken();
            $table-&gt;timestamps();
});
</code></pre>

<p><strong>AuthController:</strong></p>

<pre><code>&lt;?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Auth;

use App\User;
use Validator;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\ThrottlesLogins;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers;

class AuthController extends Controller
{
    /*
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    | Registration &amp; Login Controller
    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
    |
    | This controller handles the registration of new users, as well as the
    | authentication of existing users. By default, this controller uses
    | a simple trait to add these behaviors. Why don't you explore it?
    |
    */

    use AuthenticatesAndRegistersUsers, ThrottlesLogins;

    /**
     * Where to redirect users after login / registration.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $redirectTo = '/home';

    /**
     * Create a new authentication controller instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this-&gt;middleware('guest', ['except' =&gt; 'logout']);
    }

    /**
     * Get a validator for an incoming registration request.
     *
     * @param  array  $data
     * @return \Illuminate\Contracts\Validation\Validator
     */
    protected function validator(array $data)
    {
        return Validator::make($data, [
            'name' =&gt; 'required|max:255',    /**
     * Create a new user instance after a valid registration.
     *
     * @param  array  $data
     * @return User
     */
    protected function create(array $data)
    {
        return User::create([
            'name' =&gt; $data['name'],
            'email' =&gt; $data['email'],
            'password' =&gt; bcrypt($data['password']),
        ]);
    }
}

            'email' =&gt; 'required|email|max:255|unique:users',
            'password' =&gt; 'required|confirmed|min:6',
        ]);
    }
</code></pre>