Laravel "Wrong password" error message - php

Question

I'm creating a login function in Laravel 5.4 and I want to show error message in the view when the password is incorrect. Also I have a custom message for account approval so it makes things a bit difficult for me. Meanwhile I put those messages together but is not very user-friendly. How can I separate them?
This is my controller:
public function login(Request $request)
{
// validate the form data
$this->validate($request, [
'email' => 'required|email|exists:users,email',
'password' => 'required|min:6'
]);
// attempt to log
if (Auth::attempt(['approve' => '1', 'email' => $request->email, 'password' => $request->password ], $request->remember)) {
// if successful -> redirect forward
return redirect()->intended(route('user.overview'));
}
// if unsuccessful -> redirect back
return redirect()->back()->withInput($request->only('email', 'remember'))->withErrors([
'approve' => 'Wrong password or this account not approved yet.',
]);
}
As result i want to replace Wrong password or this account not approved yet with two separate messages:
If password is wrong to show: Password is wrong
If account not approved show: This account not approved yet

Answer 1

You can pass custom error messages for each validation rule, you can do this:
public function login(Request $request)
{
//Error messages
$messages = [
"email.required" => "Email is required",
"email.email" => "Email is not valid",
"email.exists" => "Email doesn't exists",
"password.required" => "Password is required",
"password.min" => "Password must be at least 6 characters"
];
// validate the form data
$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
'email' => 'required|email|exists:users,email',
'password' => 'required|min:6'
], $messages);
if ($validator->fails()) {
return back()->withErrors($validator)->withInput();
} else {
// attempt to log
if (Auth::attempt(['approve' => '1', 'email' => $request->email, 'password' => $request->password ], $request->remember)) {
// if successful -> redirect forward
return redirect()->intended(route('user.overview'));
}
// if unsuccessful -> redirect back
return redirect()->back()->withInput($request->only('email', 'remember'))->withErrors([
'approve' => 'Wrong password or this account not approved yet.',
]);
}
}
Before this, you have to include Validator class:
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Validator;

Answer 2

Without writing a new custom login method we can easily handle a custom wrong password message with the Auth default login process.
Open LoginController from the location: app/Http/Controllers/Auth/
Include the Request class if not exit on top of the controller
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
Finally add below line of codes at the very bottom of your LoginController to process the response error with custom message
/**
* Get the failed login response instance.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #return \Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse
*/
protected function sendFailedLoginResponse(Request $request)
{
$errors = [$this->username() => trans('auth.failed')];
// Load user from database
$user = \App\User::where($this->username(), $request->{$this->username()})->first();
if ($user && !\Hash::check($request->password, $user->password)) {
$errors = ['password' => 'Wrong password'];
}
if ($request->expectsJson()) {
return response()->json($errors, 422);
}
return redirect()->back()
->withInput($request->only($this->username(), 'remember'))
->withErrors($errors);
}

Answer 3

You can use like this:
return Redirect::back()->withInput(Input::all());
If you're using Form Request Validation, this is exactly how Laravel will redirect you back with errors and the given input.
Excerpt from \Illuminate\Foundation\Validation\ValidatesRequests:
return redirect()->to($this->getRedirectUrl())
->withInput($request->input())
->withErrors($errors, $this->errorBag());
Controller:
public function login(Request $request)
{
// validate the form data
$this->validate($request, [
'email' => 'required|email|exists:users,email',
'password' => 'required|min:6'
]);
// attempt to log
if (Auth::attempt(['approve' => '1', 'email' => $request->email, 'password' => $request->password ], $request->remember)) {
// if successful -> redirect forward
return redirect()->intended(route('user.overview'));
}
// if unsuccessful -> redirect back
return Redirect::back()
->withInput()
->withErrors(
[
'password' => 'Wrong Password',
],
[
'approve' => 'Account not approved',
],
);
}