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Only allowing subscribed customers to watch videos

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    We now have videos on our website, we now have customers able to subscribe, but

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    without

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    a subscription, customers can still watch videos without paying, so let's remedy

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    that.

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    If we head back to the Cashier docs, we can see there's a section called

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    "Checking Subscription Status".

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    We can see from the code sample it says that we can use a "subscribed" method on

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    a User

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    model instance to determine whether a user subscribed or not.

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    The first argument is the name of the product.

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    We left this as "default", so we can even omit that argument and just use $user->subscribed

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    The Cashier docs suggest using middleware, but we don't want to completely block

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    users

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    who aren't subscribed.

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    We still want guests and non-subscribers to be able to see the videos' details.

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    We just don't want them to be able to watch the actual video without an active

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    subscription.

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    Therefore, we're going to do the subscribed check in the view.

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    We can make use of a policy here, as we're checking access for the authenticated user

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    against

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    a model.

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    Let's create a VideoPolicy class.

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    Open up the auth service provider file, and add a mapping for our Video model

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    and

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    now a new VideoPolicy class.

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    Open up the VideoPolicy class, copy the "view" method, paste it, and rename it to

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    "watch".

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    Inside this method, we can just check if the user is currently subscribed.

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    Open up your videos show view, and we can use the @can directive to check if

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    the user

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    is authenticated and able to watch the video.

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    We'll wrap the mux-player tag in the @can directive.

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    For users who do not have permission to watch the video, let's just show the

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    thumbnail

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    with a message saying they need to be subscribed to watch.

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    We can also add a link to subscribe.

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    If we open a private browsing window, we should now see the thumbnail with a

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    message saying

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    that user needs to be subscribed, and a link to subscribe.

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    So now we have videos locked behind a paywall where only paying subscribers

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    can watch.

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    In the next lesson, we'll look at how we can track activity in our videos using

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    Mux Data.
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