How to make 3 different user groups in Laravel?

Question

Laravel

I will have 3 different user groups. They will not be similar to each other - there are too many differences in the fields. It is clear that you can make 3 tables for each user and create a guard for each, but this creates many restrictions, for example, when working with Laravel Passport - the user_id field is used in the table (that is, it is possible to work with only 1 group). How do I properly work with 3 very different groups?

Answer 1

Never make different tables for users.
Especially if they intersect in the code, it will be such a hassle that you won’t rake it up later.
What does strong difference mean? Different fields in profiles, different accesses?
For this, they are divided into a group by any RBAC package.
And for super different profile fields, you can create a key value table and store absolutely any data in it. Instead of a ton of new columns in the user table.
A simplified version of the EAV approach.

Answer 2

If you are specifically concerned about Passport, then you can go by introducing a system of roles for users.
For example, there is an interesting package for organizing ACL https://github.com/spatie/laravel-permission , then all users will be in one table, and then you simply distribute roles and / or rights to each user.