Unwanted validation rule being applied on password reset - laravel

I'm trying to use the password reset ability of Laravel's authentication. After running make:auth command, inside my ResetPasswordController, I have overridden rules function of Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\ResetsPasswords trait as the following:
protected function rules()
{
return [
'token' => 'required',
'email' => 'required|email',
'password' => 'required|confirmed|min:4',
];
}
So, I am trying to change the minimum length value to 4. But when I try to reset my password, a rule of minimum of 8 characters is still being applied instead of 4.
Here is the reset function of laravel in the same file:
public function reset(Request $request)
{
$request->validate($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
? $this->sendResetResponse($request, $response)
: $this->sendResetFailedResponse($request, $response);
}
And the $response being returned is Illuminate\Support\Facades\Password::INVALID_PASSWORD. I don't understand where this rule is coming from.
Actually the validation behavior is like this: When I enter less than 4 characters, my own rule is applied (correctly). However, entering 4 to less than 8 characters is also an error by some other rule.

The reason that you're getting the error back is because the PasswordBroker expects a password with a minimum length of 8 characters so even though your form validation is passing, the validation in the PasswordBroker isn't.
One way to get around this would be to override the broker() method in your ResetPasswordController and pass your own validator to it:
public function broker()
{
$broker = Password::broker();
$broker->validator(function ($credentials) {
return $credentials['password'] === $credentials['password_confirmation'];
});
return $broker;
}
The above is essentially the same as what's going on in the PasswordBroker itself, just without the string length check as well.
Don't forget to import the Password facade into your controller:
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Password;
This isn't essential, but for good measure I would then suggest updating the password error message in your resources/lang/en/passwords.php file as well.

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Create session on consuming login with api on laravel

I have an api that has a method to start and I am calling it from a frontend project.
In the front end project I use Guzzle to make the call via post to the api and login, from which I get back a json with the user data and a jwt token.
But when I receive the token as I manage the session, I must create a session and save the token, since the laravel to authenticate I need a model user and have a database, which of course I do not have in this backend because I call the api to log in, which brings a token and user data, then as I manage it from the backend, I'm a little lost there.
$api = new Api();
$response = $api->loginapi(['user'=>'wings#test.com','password'=>'123']);
Because here I could not do Auth::login($user) to generate the session.
Because I don't have here the database because the login is done from the api.
There I call the api, of which the answer is the token, but how do I manage it from here, creating a session? saving the token?
thanks for your help.
With api, you don't usually manage a session. usually, you'd call something like
Auth::attempt([
'email' => 'me#example.com',
'password' => 'myPassword'
]);
If the credentials are correct, laravel will include a Set-Cookie header in response, and, that is how you authenticate with api. Via an auth cookie. You don't need to do anything else.
Let's show you how:
//AuthController.php
public function login(Request $request) {
$validatedData = $request->validate([
'email' => 'required|email',
'password' => 'required'
]);
if(Auth::attempt($validatedData)){
return ['success' => 'true'];
}
else{
return ['success' => false, 'message' => 'Email or password Invalid'];
}
}
public function currentUser (){
return Auth::user();
}
Now, the APi file
Route::post('/login', ['App\Http\Controllers\AuthController', 'login']);
Route::get('/current_user', ['App\Http\Controllers\AuthController', 'currentUser']);
Now if you make a call to /api/current_user initially, you'll get null response since you're not currently logged in. But once you make request to /api/login and you get a successful response, you are now logged in. Now if you go to /api/current_user, you should see that you're already logged in.
Important ::
If you are using fetch, you need to include credentials if you're using something other than fetch, check out how to use credentials with that library or api
You want to use the API to authenticate and then use the SessionGuard to create session including the remember_me handling.
This is the default login controller endpoint for logging in. You don't want to change this, as it makes sure that user's do not have endless login attempts (protects for brut-force attacks) and redirects to your current location.
public function login(Request $request)
{
$this->validateLogin($request);
// If the class is using the ThrottlesLogins trait, we can automatically throttle
// the login attempts for this application. We'll key this by the username and
// the IP address of the client making these requests into this application.
if (method_exists($this, 'hasTooManyLoginAttempts') &&
$this->hasTooManyLoginAttempts($request)) {
$this->fireLockoutEvent($request);
return $this->sendLockoutResponse($request);
}
if ($this->attemptLogin($request)) {
if ($request->hasSession()) {
$request->session()->put('auth.password_confirmed_at', time());
}
return $this->sendLoginResponse($request);
}
// If the login attempt was unsuccessful we will increment the number of attempts
// to login and redirect the user back to the login form. Of course, when this
// user surpasses their maximum number of attempts they will get locked out.
$this->incrementLoginAttempts($request);
return $this->sendFailedLoginResponse($request);
}
The core happens when we try to "attemptLogin" at
protected function attemptLogin(Request $request)
{
return $this->guard()->attempt(
$this->credentials($request), $request->boolean('remember')
);
}
When using the SessioGurad (which is default) the method attemptLogin fires a couple of events, checks if the user has valid credentials (by hashing the password and matching it with db) and then logs the user in, including the remember me functionality.
Now, if you don't care about events, you can just check from your API if the credentials match and then use the login method from the guard. This will also handle the remember me functionality. Something like this:
protected function attemptLogin(Request $request)
{
$username = $request->input($this->username());
$password = $request->input('password');
$result = \Illuminate\Support\Facades\Http::post(env('YOUR_API_DOMAIN') . '/api/v0/login' , [
'username' => $username,
'password' => $password
])->json();
if(empty($result['success'])){
return false;
}
// Maybe you need to create the user here if the login is for the first time?
$user = User::where('username', '=', $username)->first();
$this->guard()->login(
$user, $request->boolean('remember')
);
return true;
}

Custom login property Laravel 8

I have this custom function for atempting to login in Laravel 8
protected function attemptLogin(Request $request)
{
$credentials = $this->credentials($request);
$credentials['estado']=1;
return $this->guard()->attempt(
$credentials, $request->filled('remember')
);
}
How I can make to accept the login atempt when $credentials['estado'] also has 2 as value.
Don't know how to make it accept multiple values.
I managed to make the custom function accept the value of 1 but dunno how to make it accept multiple $credentials['estado'] values.
You don't need to change anything in attemptLogin() method, instead you can customize the crededentials() method in LoginController like this:
// login, if user have like a following described data in array
protected function credentials(Request $request)
{
$username = $this->username();
return [
$username => $request->get($username),
'password' => $request->get('password'),
'estado' => [ 1, 2 ], // OR condition
];
}
Answer for comments:
Honestly in my experience I didn't have that case, but if you want to redirect to the another view on failed login (for specific field 'estado'), you can customize the "sendFailedLoginResponse" method, and add some additional if-condition for checking the 'estado'.
As the "sendFailedLoginResponse" method will be called only for getting failed login response instance, then you can check: is that fail comes from 'estado' field actually. Something like this:
protected function sendFailedLoginResponse(Request $request)
{
// custom case, when login failed and estado is 2
if ($request->get('estado') == 2) {
return view('some.specific.view');
}
// laravel by default implementation
else {
throw ValidationException::withMessages([
$this->username() => [trans('auth.failed')],
]);
}
}
Remember, in this case (when we're redirecting the user to some page) we actually not redirecting as for always, but instead we're just returning a view. We do that because I think you don't want to let the users to open that specific view page anytime their want, as you need to let them see that page only for specific case. But when you'll do the actual redirect, then you will let the users to visit that page with some static URL.
Of course, you can do some additional stuff (add something in DB or the Session, and check is the request comes actually from 'estado' fails, but not from any user), but this could be a headeche for you, and in my opinion that will not be a real laravel-specific code.
Anyway, this is the strategy. I don't think, that this is mandatory, but this can be do your work easy and secure.
Note: I've got this deafault implementations from "AuthenticatesUsers" trait (use use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\AuthenticatesUsers;). In any time you can get some available methods from there and override them in your LoginController, as the LoginController used that as a trait.

What is the correct order of form validation and retrieving input values?

I wonder if I should do form validation before retrieving input values or vice versa.
I usually do validation first as I see no benefit in trying to access input values that might not be valid. However, a coworker looked at my code recently and found it strange. Is there any correct order for these steps?
public function createGroups(Request $request)
{
$this->validate($request, [
'courses' => 'required_without:sections',
'sections' => 'required_without:courses',
'group_set_name' => 'required',
'group_number' => 'required|integer|min:1'
]);
$courses = $request->input('courses');
$sections = $request->input('sections');
$group_set_name = $request->input('group_set_name');
$group_number = $request->input('group_number');
Positioning the validation for your controller logic at the beginning of a method is probably the way to go here, as you have required parameters defined. If you receive data that does not fully satisfy the requirements, you produce a validation error back to the user. This follows the productive "Fail Fast" line of thinking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-fast
It's also important that you're not using any data that hasn't passed your stringent requirements from validation. Data that fails validation should no longer be trusted. Unless there's some other reason you need to be, say, logging any incoming data from the frontend, the order here looks good to me.
I totally agree with #1000Nettles response, to elaborate a little bit more on his/her answer (who should be the accepted one): There isn't any need to continue with your business logic when the data doens't comply with your specifications. Let's say you expected a string of a N characters long, because you defined your database with that limitation (in order to optimize the db desing), will you try to persist it even when it'll throw an exception? Not really.
Besides, Laravel has a particular way to extract validation classes: Form Request. This are injected in controllers. When a call reach the controller it means that already passed the validation, if not, an 422error be returned.
Create a custom request and keep the mess out of your controller, it doesn't even hit your controller function if validation failed and can just grab the data in your controller if validation passed.
php artisan make:request GroupRequest
In app/Http/Requests/GroupRequest.php:
public function authorize()
{
// return true;
return request()->user()-isAdmin; // <-- example, but true if anyone can use this form
}
public function rules()
{
return [
'courses' => ['required_without:sections'],
'sections' => ['required_without:courses'],
'group_set_name' => ['required'],
'group_number' => ['required', 'integer', 'min:1'],
];
}
The best part is you can even manipulate the data in here (GroupRequest.php) after it has been validated:
public function validated()
{
$validated = $this->getValidatorInstance()->validate();
// EXAMPLE: hash password here then just use new hashed password in controller
$validated['password'] = Hash::make($validated['password']);
return $validated;
}
In your controller:
public function createUser(UserRequest $request) // <- in your case 'GroupRequest'
{
$validated = $request->validated(); // <-- already passed validation
$new_user = User::create($validated); // <-- password already hashed in $validated
return view('dashboard.users.show')->with(compact('user'));
}
In your case, if you use my GroupRequest block above, you can return to view in 1 line of code:
public function createGroups(GroupRequest $request)
{
return view('example.groups.show')->with($request->validated()); // <-- already an array
}
In you blade view file, you can then use your variables like {{ $group_set_name }} and {{ $group_number }}

What is the difference between "login" and "attempt" method in Auth

I'm learning Laravel 5.4 and customizing and making my original Auth functionalities.
The below is my "authenticate" method.
public function authenticate(Request $request)
{
$remember_me = (Input::has('remember')) ? true : false;
Auth::guard('web');
$this->validateLogin($request);
$credentials = array(
'username' => trim($request->input('username')),
'password' => trim($request->input('password'))
);
if(Auth::attempt($credentials, $remember_me)){
$user = Auth::guard('web')->user();
Auth::guard('web')->login($user, $remember_me);
return redirect()->route('mypage');
}
return redirect()->back();
}
I have a question about the part of $remember_me argument about both attempt and login methods noted above.
What is the difference between them?
When I saw the documentation, it said similar to, if you want to make "remember me" token, you can set the second boolean argument about both of them.
attempt($credentials, $remember_me) will attempt to log the user in if the login credentials are correct. If they are not, then the user is not logged in. This method returns a boolean so you can check success.
login($user_id, $remember_me) will log the user in, without checking any credentials.
The remember me specifys if the user login should persist across browser sessions without needing to re-auth.
In your example I see your calling login(...) within your attempt(...). This shouldn't be needed. You can remove the login(...) line.
Example:
if(Auth::attempt($credentials, $remember_me)){
return redirect()->route('mypage');
}

how to generate error message in laravel

Hello stackoverflow geeks, I'm in my final stages of the laravel learning curve all thanks to you guys.
However, i need to generate a warning message like "You cannot delete a role assigned to a user" every time a user tries to delete a role assigned to a user.
instead it loads a page with an sql error. how to i do it?
And how do i avoid a password that has been already been stored from being hashed again. eg:- $2y$10$p8JwI5P4yE2UFo2.vHP99.0dP2jU7ll/9w73IzUa9/yegKOSTHJWq is always hashed every time i edit a user's information.
Thanks you all who've made learning laravel easy for me by answering in time
code
public function destroy(Request $request,$id)
{
// delete
// $role = Role::find($id);
//$role->delete();
$role = Role::find ($id);
if ($role->users() !=null) {
return redirect()->back()->withInput(['warning' => 'Not allowed']);
}
$role->delete();
// redirect
Session::flash('message', 'Record successfully deleted!');
Session::flash('alert-type', 'success');
return Redirect::to('role');
}
This highly depends on how you want to handle the errors. You can either catch the sql exception and display your custom error OR what is probably better for you is to handle the incoming request, validate it and return an error if validation fails.
Here are the validation docs : https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/validation
You have multiple options on how to validate a request. Simple example to validate a title is unique in the table posts and is maximum 255 chars long:
$this->validate($request, [
'title' => 'required|unique:posts|max:255'
]);
If you cannot find a rule that is helping you simply define your own validation rule https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/validation#custom-validation-rules
Ofcourse you can also do the validation manually. In your request or in your controller (depends on your setup) just check for it
// assuming you want to delete an entry
public function delete(Request $request, $id)
{
$role = App\Role::findOrFail($id);
if ($role->users() != null) {
return redirect()->back()->withInput(['message' => 'Not allowed']);
// now you can output $message
}
$role->delete();
return ...
}

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