Suggestions on how to pragmatically allow one Laravel user to add another - laravel

Question

I need on my Laravel set-up (which uses the standard Auth models/controller) to allow a logged-in user to create another user account on the site. As a shot in the dark, on my "add user" page, I did an include of the form from auth.register, and it showed up fine on the page (great!), but when I filled out the form and submitted it, it just reloaded the page, with no errors and the new user was not added to the database.
The things I'd need different than the standard auth.register are
1) There will be a column in the users table pairing the two users.
2) I want the verification email to be different than if they signed up on their own.
3) I was also thinking to not let the creating user choose a password, but have the new user reset their password via the initial email.
Is there any Laravel way of doing all this or will I have to write it myself?

Answer 1

1) There will be a column in the users table pairing the two users.
Take a look in your RegisterController and check out the use RegisterUsers trait included. Whatever you copy from this trait and move it to RegisterController, it gets overwritten by your logic rather than trait logic.
For the pairing, you can utilise create() method. A really pseudo way:
protected function create(array $data) {
$pair = // find a random user
return User::create([
'name' => $data['name'],
'email' => $data['email'],
'password' => Hash::make($data['password']),
'pair_id' => $pair->id
]);
}
2) I want the verification email to be different than if they signed up on their own.
For this, I am not sure where you trigger it already, but the email event lives in EventServiceProvider by default:
protected $listen = [
Registered::class => [
SendEmailVerificationNotification::class,
]
];
Change it your custom email and you should be good.
3) I was also thinking to not let the creating user choose a password, but have the new user reset their password via the initial email.
Again, in create() method, you can just assign a random password, and with your email, redirect them to the ResetPassword actions somehow. This needs some time to figure out for me now but see reset-password routes (with php artisan route:list), so what it accepts and in your custom email, place the button with necessary link.
Make sure you don't login the user right after registering in that case.
So, bottomline - the auth default logics live in their traits, and if you want to overwrite some, just copy/paste the method to your controller and tweak it as you wish.