change password user laravel 5.3

Question

I want to create form with 3 field (old_password, new_password, confirm_password) with laravel 5.

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old password : {!! Form::password(

Answer 1

This is how I do this with Laravel 5.8:

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Confirm password must be something like this:

{!! Form::password('password_confirmation', ['class' => 'form-control'']) !!}

Because Laravel provides out the box a field confirmed rule.

Create a form request and put this inside the rules part:

use App\Rules\IsCurrentPassword;

/**
 * Get the validation rules that apply to the request.
 *
 * @return array
 */
public function rules()
{
    return [
        'old_password' => ['required', new IsCurrentPassword],
        'password' => 'required|string|min:6|confirmed',
    ];
}

Let's use artisan to generate a rule that verifies if old_password is the real current password:

php artisan make:rule IsCurrentPassword

And put this inside the passes method of rule generated:

/**
 * Determine if the validation rule passes.
 *
 * @param  string  $attribute
 * @param  mixed  $value
 * @return bool
 */
public function passes($attribute, $value)
{
    $current_password = auth()->user()->password;
    return Hash::check($value, $current_password);
}

Do not forget to import Hash:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Hash;

Controller

All you need to do in your controller is this:

auth()->user()->update([
    'password' => Hash::make($request->password)
]);

And tada :) Hope I help.