# Bouncer

PHP library for managing roles, abilities and model ownership on Eloquent models, integrated with Laravel's gate.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/bouncer/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04
Listed since: 2026-11-04

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/JosephSilber/bouncer
- docs: https://github.com/JosephSilber/bouncer/blob/master/readme.md

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Joseph Silber
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2015
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: auth
- hosting: php
- language: php
- runtime: php
- runtimeMin: php 8.2
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: composer require silber/bouncer

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-03-18

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 3577
- packagistDownloads: 5331530
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 50
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 309
- dependentPackages: 32

### Sources

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- urls: https://github.com/JosephSilber/bouncer/blob/master/readme.md (read 2026-11-04)
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- runtime: https://github.com/JosephSilber/bouncer/blob/v1.0.4/composer.json (read 2026-11-04)
- runtimeMin: https://github.com/JosephSilber/bouncer/blob/v1.0.4/composer.json (read 2026-11-04)
- installMethod: https://github.com/JosephSilber/bouncer/blob/master/readme.md (read 2026-11-04)
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- firstRelease: https://repo.packagist.org/p2/silber/bouncer.json (read 2026-11-04)
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- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/JosephSilber/bouncer/releases (read 2026-11-04)
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- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/JosephSilber/bouncer/contributors (read 2026-11-04)
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## Notes

Bouncer manages roles and abilities on Eloquent models, and it is installed with Composer. A developer grants abilities to users and roles, restricts an ability to a model type or a model instance, forbids an ability, and lets a user or role own a model. In a Laravel app, Bouncer is consulted when an ability is checked at Laravel's gate. The README has a separate install section for apps that do not use Laravel, which starts with the same Composer command.

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