laravel4cookbook

Access Control List 70
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This was extracted from app/start/global.php.
Once we’ve included that helpers.php file in the startup processes of our application; we can check
whether the authenticated user is allowed access to resources simply by passing the resource name
to the allowed() method.
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The first time you run the migrations (if you’re installing from GitHub); you may see errors relating
to the resource table. This is likely caused by the routes.php file trying to load routes from an empty
database table before seeding takes place. Try commenting out the code in routes.php until you’ve
successfully migrated and seeded your database. There are nicer ways to do this; all of which I will
not cover now.
Try this out by wrapping the links of your application in a condition which references this method.
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For the sake of brevity; I have not included any examples of this, though many can be found, in
the source code, on GitHub.