Override Auth Forgot Password in Laravel 5.3 - php

Question

I am using built in laravel auth functionality.Its working fine.I am trying to override following two functionality.
1.send forgot password email using mandrill.
2.send verification email while registering account.
Can any one help me to solve this issue
My aim is to use mandril instead of default email
I can see auth built in methods but i didnt got idea how i can override that
trait ResetsPasswords
{
use RedirectsUsers;
/**
* Display the password reset view for the given token.
*
* If no token is present, display the link request form.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #param string|null $token
* #return \Illuminate\Contracts\View\Factory|\Illuminate\View\View
*/
public function showResetForm(Request $request, $token = null)
{
return view('auth.passwords.reset')->with(
['token' => $token, 'email' => $request->email]
);
}
/**
* Reset the given user's password.
*
* #param \Illuminate\Http\Request $request
* #return \Illuminate\Http\Response
*/
public function reset(Request $request)
{
$this->validate($request, $this->rules(), $this->validationErrorMessages());
// Here we will attempt to reset the user's password. If it is successful we
// will update the password on an actual user model and persist it to the
// database. Otherwise we will parse the error and return the response.
$response = $this->broker()->reset(
$this->credentials($request), function ($user, $password) {
$this->resetPassword($user, $password);
}
);
// If the password was successfully reset, we will redirect the user back to
// the application's home authenticated view. If there is an error we can
// redirect them back to where they came from with their error message.
return $response == Password::PASSWORD_RESET
? $this->sendResetResponse($response)
: $this->sendResetFailedResponse($request, $response);
}

Answer 1

As answered by Mahfuzal, Laravel comes with a bunch of mail drivers out of the box. So just update your .env file to use the right driver.
As for sending a verification email when creating an account, you just need to override the postRegister() function inside the Auth/AuthController like so:
public function postRegister(Request $request)
{
$validator = $this->validator($request->all());
if ($validator->fails()) {
$this->throwValidationException(
$request, $validator
);
}
$confirmation_code = str_random(30);
$newUser = new User;
$newUser->username = $request->username;
$newUser->email = $request->email;
$newUser->password = bcrypt($request->password);
$newUser->confirmation_code = $confirmation_code;
$newUser->save();
$data = array('confirmation_code' => $confirmation_code, 'username' => $request->username);
Mail::send('emails.verify', $data, function ($message) use ($newUser){
$message->to($newUser->email, $newUser->username);
$message->subject('Please verify your email address');
});
return redirect('/auth/login');
}
This will execute the above code when registering a user rather than what Laravel does default out of the box so just tweak it to your needs.
You then just need to create a function that will check the token and verify their account when they click the link. For that, I use something similar to what is explained here.

Answer 2

Laravel provides drivers for SMTP, Mailgun, Mandrill, Amazon SES,
PHP's mail function, and sendmail, allowing you to quickly get started
sending mail through a local or cloud based service of your choice.
Open your .env file and change following by your Mandrill credentials and then you're good to go.
MAIL_DRIVER=mandrill
MAIL_HOST=
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=null
MAIL_PASSWORD=null
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null

Answer 3

You can create your own reset method in the controller that uses the trait to override the method in the trait.