Setup User and RBAC Management in Yii2

My goal for this exercise is to have User and RBAC management in my Yii 2 application.

I’ve started out with the Yii 2 Basic Project Template and I would be adding the Yii2-user and Yii2-rbac extensions to my web application.

Here are some of the steps I have taken to install and configure the extensions.

Step 1: Installation

Install the packages.

composer require dektrium/yii2-user
composer require dektrium/yii2-rbac

Step 2: Configure the web application

NOTE: Make sure that you don’t have user component configuration in your config files. Add the user and rbac module to the web applcation config.

'modules' => [
    ...
    'rbac' => 'dektrium\rbac\RbacWebModule',
    'user' => [
        'class' => 'dektrium\user\Module',
    ],
    ...
],

Step 3: Configure the console application

Add the user and rbac module to the console applcation config.

'modules' => [
    ...
    'rbac' => 'dektrium\rbac\RbacConsoleModule',
    'user' => [
        'class' => 'dektrium\user\Module',
    ],
    ...
],

Step 4: Update the database schema

Update the database scheme

php yii migrate/up --migrationPath=@vendor/dektrium/yii2-user/migrations
php yii migrate/up --migrationPath=@yii/rbac/migrations

Step 5: Create Super User

Create my first admin user

php yii user/create [email protected] admin password