Laravel reset password route not working - laravel

Question

I am building custom views to reset passwords.
The routes looks like this:
Route::get('password/reset', 'Auth\ForgotPasswordController#showLinkRequestForm')->name('password.reset');
Route::post('password/email', 'Auth\ForgotPasswordController#sendResetLinkEmail')->name('password.email');
Route::get('password/reset/{token}', 'Auth\ResetPasswordController#showResetForm')->name('password.reset.token');
Route::post('password/reset', 'Auth\ResetPasswordController#reset');
In ResetPasswordController.php I have added this:
//Show form to seller where they can reset password
public function showResetForm(Request $request, $token = null)
{
return view('auth.passwords.reset')->with(
['token' => $token, 'email' => $request->email]
);
}
The link sent to me looks like this:
https://myapp.dev/password/reset?451c70284a9d4b41123c4ec3efe83602b6cb955427ac48835200a45980bcf9f3
If I now enter that link I will go straight to the password/reset view and not the password/reset/{token}
However if I change the link in my broswer to
https://myapp.dev/password/reset/451c70284a9d4b41123c4ec3efe83602b6cb955427ac48835200a45980bcf9f3 (changing "?" to "/") I it works
So why doesnt the ? version of the URL work? I am using laravel 5.5
And since I dotn use the Auth:routes() is there any way to see what routes laravel generates when you use that?

Answer 1

There are two different things with parameters.
Route Parameters: These are included in the routes with '/' as in your example. You can get them by:
$request->parameter('parameter_name');
$request->parameters(); // for all parameters
Request Parameters: These are request parameters which attached in the URL after '?'. Parameters are sent this way in GET request. You can get them by:
$request->input('parameter_name');
$request->all(); // for all parameters

Answer 2

Laravel doc..
Probably you are confused with required parameters and optional parameters.
When you are defining the following route..
Route::get('password/reset/{token}', 'Auth\ResetPasswordController#showResetForm')->name('password.reset.token');
Laravel expects the token value as a required parameter in the third segment of the route.
But when you are accessing the route as
https://myapp.dev/password/reset?451c70284a9d4b41123c4ec3efe8360..
There is only two segment for the route. The token value is assigned as the get parameter or optional parameter.
As you already defined as follows..
Route::get('password/reset', 'Auth\ForgotPasswordController#showLinkRequestForm')->name('password.reset');
your generated link points to the password/reset and ?451c70284a9d4b41123c4ec3efe83602b6cb955427ac48835200a45980bcf9f3 value is passed as the get parameter.
To trigger your reset the following route
Route::get('password/reset/{token}', 'Auth\ResetPasswordController#showResetForm')->name('password.reset.token');
you should use the following link format
https://myapp.dev/password/reset/451c70284a9d4b41123c4ec3efe83602b6cb955427ac48835200a45980bcf9f3

Answer 3

First of all, in your route
Route::get('password/reset', 'Auth\ForgotPasswordController#showLinkRequestForm')->name('password.reset');
will take precedence over your url. since the route was declared on top and thus will goes into that showLinkRequestForm function first.
Meanwhile in your '/{token}' it will take slashes with the value that you sent thru the get route. Which currently you get.
Route::get('password/reset/{token}', 'Auth\ResetPasswordController#showResetForm')->name('password.reset.token');
Note that, position of route declaration is also affecting . Given example of 2 route with the same url but different name
//1st password/reset
Route::get('password/reset', 'Auth\ForgotPasswordController#showLinkRequestForm')->name('password.reset');
//2nd password/reset
Route::get('password/reset', 'Auth\ForgotPasswordController#showTokenForm')->name('password.reset.form');
In that case route naming will take the latest/last declaration which is 2nd password/reset and the first password/reset will be ignored or made into not available (tested).
So to answer your question which you asking Muhammad Nauman :
"How should I then change my code in order to get given route to work?"
Route::get('password/reset/{token}',
'Auth\ResetPasswordController#showResetForm')->name('password.reset.token');
In blade template you can adjust your routing value looks like this
Reset Form
Inside your new ResetPasswordController.php
public function showResetForm(Request $request)
{
$token = $request->route()->parameter('token');
return view('auth.passwords.reset')->with(
['token' => $token, 'email' => $request->email]
);
}
But if you are kinda like doing dirty way which pass the GET request token email
"?token="somevalue"&email="somevalue" you could do something like this
public function showResetForm()
{
return view('auth.passwords.reset')->with(
['token' => request('token'), 'email' => request('email')]
);
}
Then in the blade you add additional routing parameter of email too
Reset Form