It is a common practice to store different user types in different database tables. For example, in most applications you will have an Admin user and a normal user. Though we can have all the users in a single table and discriminate them based on a column, sometimes if the fields are quite different, we would like to have different table for each type of user.

Displaying parts of view based on conditions is super easy in Blade using @if ... @endif conditions. Imagine we are storing the role information as a string in the User model under the role field. We would write something as shown below to check the roles in the blade syntax.

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