Resetting Passwords

Resetting Passwords

• Introduction
• Database Considerations
• Routing
• Views
• After Resetting Passwords
• Customization

Introduction

Want to get started fast? Just run php artisan make:auth in a fresh Laravel application and navigate your browser to http://your-app.dev/register or any other URL that is assigned to your application. This single command will take care of scaffolding your entire authentication system, including resetting passwords!

Most web applications provide a way for users to reset their forgotten passwords. Rather than forcing you to re-implement this on each application, Laravel provides convenient methods for sending password reminders and performing password resets.

Before using the password reset features of Laravel, your user must use the Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable trait.

Database Considerations

To get started, verify that your App\User model implements the Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\CanResetPassword contract. Of course, the App\User model included with the framework already implements this interface, and uses the Illuminate\Auth\Passwords\CanResetPassword trait to include the methods needed to implement the interface.

Generating The Reset Token Table Migration

Next, a table must be created to store the password reset tokens. The migration for this table is included with Laravel out of the box, and resides in the database/migrations directory. So, all you need to do is run your database migrations:

php artisan migrate

Routing

Laravel includes Auth\ForgotPasswordController and Auth\ResetPasswordController classes that contains the logic necessary to e-mail password reset links and reset user passwords. All of the routes needed to perform password resets may be generated using the make:auth Artisan command:

php artisan make:auth

Views

Again, Laravel will generate all of the necessary views for password reset when the make:auth command is executed. These views are placed in resources/views/auth/passwords. You are free to customize them as needed for your application.