Registering Policies in Laravel 12

You probably don't need to¶

As an example, let's imagine a Comment model. We want to create a policy for it.

php artisan make:policy CommentPolicy

By generating a policy this way, we've:

• Added it to the Policies directory
• Kept the naming convention to ModelPolicy

And because of this, using auto-discovery, Laravel has already registered your policy against that model for you. That's right, nothing left to do!

If you do need to¶

If you're using a different structure within your application or prefer not to name Policies within Laravel conventions, you can, of course, manually register policies.

In a service provider, typically AppServiceProvider:

public function boot(): void
{
    Gate::policy(Comment::class, CommentPolicy::class);
}

Customizing policy discovery logic¶

You can customize the policy discovery logic using the guessPolicyNamesUsing method via the Gate facade.

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Gate;

Gate::guessPolicyNamesUsing(function (string $modelClass) {
    return 'PolicyFor' . $modelClass;
});

This assumes we want to discover policies named PolicyFor[Model]. Unlikely, but now you know how to change the logic.