Customizing password reset mail View in Laravel

Question

How can I change what appears in the password reset email in laravel? Like addressing the user with his name and show the password reset link etc. Where is that email view l

Answer 1

In Laravel 5.3 they changed the entire password reset code, so the given answer doesn't work anymore.

If you want to change the basic texts you should copy vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Auth/Notifications/ResetPassword.php to some place in your own app (e.g. app/Notifications/ResetPassword.php), set the correct namespace and alter the texts as you wish. (don't alter the original ResetPassword.php since it's bad practice to alter files in the vendor folder!)

Then add a sendPasswordResetNotification method to the User class and make sure to reference to the appropriate ResetPassword class:

use App\Notifications\ResetPassword;

...

public function sendPasswordResetNotification($token) {
    $this->notify(new ResetPassword($token));
}

If you want to change the rest of the mail template (which is used for all other mails as well) do the following:

Run php artisan vendor:publish

This will copy some blades from the vendor folder to the resources/views/vendor The resources/views/vendor/notifications/email.blade.php is the one you want to change.

Hope this helps for people who got stuck in Laravel 5.3

Answer 2

Yes you can change the email template, which is located at

 resources/views/emails/password.blade.php.

For customization pass an instance of User model to this view and echo out user name there like:

Hello, {{$user->username}}
//And Body of Reset link goes here

Update for laravel 5.3+

In updated laravel versions the code structure is revamped. Password reset mail is now at vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Auth/Notifications/ResetPassword.php

and its corresponding template is at: resources/views/vendor/notifications/email.blade.php

So in order to customize it, you may need to:

• Copy it to somewhere in your app's directory.
• Set the proper namespace to refer to it.
• Add a new method to User class & reference it to newly copied class
• Customize.