PHP Tutorial Laravel 4 Framework (Authentication) - Changing Password I

Laravel 4

1. Installing on Ubuntu - local
2. Installing on a Shared host
3. Installing on Windows
4. Creating users table
5. Home page with controller and blade
6. Blade Templating
7. Database connection and sending emails
8. Creating user account I - GET
9. Creating user account II - POST
10. Creating user account III - Error checking & redirecting input
11. Creating user account IV - User::create()
12. Activating user account I - Mail::send()
13. Activating user account II - Update user's status
14. User account sign-in I - Route and link
15. User account sign-in II - Validation
16. User account sign-in III - Login Authentication
17. Singing out
18. Remember the user
19. Changing Password I
20. Changing Password II
21. Recovering forgotten password I
22. Recovering forgotten password II
23. User Profile
24. Database Migration using artisan

This tutorial is the continuation from Remember.

In this chapter, we'll write a code so that users can change their passwords.

In this section, we'll provide a check box so that a user can have a choice for the remember feature.

views/layout/navigator.blade.php file:

<nav>
	<ul>
		<li> <a href="{{ URL::route('home') }}">Home</a></li>
		@if(Auth::check())
			<li><a href="{{ URL::route('account-sign-out') }}">Sign out</a></li>
			<li><a href="">Change password</a></li>
		@else
			<li><a href="{{ URL::route('account-sign-in') }}">Sign in</a></li>
			<li><a href="{{ URL::route('account-create') }}">Create an account</a></li>
		@endif
	</ul>
</nav>

Now we have a link for "Change password". But it's just a link not going anywhere. So, we need more work.

We will provide route with the link for Change password in routes.php file:

/* Authenticated group */
Route::group(array('before' => 'auth'), function() {

	// Change password (GET) 
	Route::get('/account/change-password', 
		array('as' => 'account-change-password',
			'uses' => 'AccountController@getChangePassword'
	));
        ...
});

We need to provide the view (forms) in a new file password.blade.php;

@extends('layout.main')

@section('content')
	Change password.
@stop

Url to our controller:

<nav>
	<ul>
		<li> <a href="{{ URL::route('home') }}">Home</a></li>
		@if(Auth::check())
			<li><a href="{{ URL::route('account-sign-out') }}">Sign out</a></li>
			<li><a href="{{ URL::route('account-change-password') }}">Change password</a></li>
		@else
			<li><a href="{{ URL::route('account-sign-in') }}">Sign in</a></li>
			<li><a href="{{ URL::route('account-create') }}">Create an account</a></li>
		@endif
	</ul>
</nav>

We haven't written the get method for password change:

public function getChangePassword() {
	return View::make('account.password');
}

When we click the link, "Change password", we should get the simple text output of "Change password" on http://localhost/account/change-password page.

Before we make the change password forms, we need to provide the route for post submit route in routes.php:

/* Authenticated group */
Route::group(array('before' => 'auth'), function() {

	/* CSRF protection */
	Route::group(array('before' => 'csrf'), function() {
		/* Change password (POST) */
		Route::post('/account/change-password', 
			array('as' => 'account-change-password-post',
				'uses' => 'AccountController@postChangePassword'
		));
	});

	// Change password (GET) 
	Route::get('/account/change-password', 
		array('as' => 'account-change-password',
			'uses' => 'AccountController@getChangePassword'
	));

Now, we have both GET and POST routes. Let's build the forms next.

In views/account/password.blade.php:

@extends('layout.main')

@section('content')
	<form action="{{ URL::route('account-change-password-post') }}" method="post">
 
		<input type="submit" value="Change password">
			{{ Form::token() }}

	</form>
@stop

We need POST method in our AccountController.php:

public function postChangePassword() {
}

Let's check what we've got so far:

If we submit, we get blank page which is expected. But important thing here is we get no errors.

Laravel 4

1. Installing on Ubuntu - local
2. Installing on a Shared host
3. Installing on Windows
4. Creating users table
5. Home page with controller and blade
6. Blade Templating
7. Database connection and sending emails
8. Creating user account I - GET
9. Creating user account II - POST
10. Creating user account III - Error checking & redirecting input
11. Creating user account IV - User::create()
12. Activating user account I - Mail::send()
13. Activating user account II - Update user's status
14. User account sign-in I - Route and link
15. User account sign-in II - Validation
16. User account sign-in III - Login Authentication
17. Singing out
18. Remember the user
19. Changing Password I
20. Changing Password II
21. Recovering forgotten password I
22. Recovering forgotten password II
23. User Profile
24. Database Migration using artisan