Laravel 5 How to check password reset token if it has expired or not

Question

I'm developing a web app using Laravel 5, I used Laravel's make:auth scaffolding. I was able to send a password reset link with a token, which works well on my end. I have this kind of url after clicking on the reset link: http://example.com/password/reset/{reset_token}. Now, on my auth.reset blade file, I want to check first if the {reset_token} has already expired because it seems in the 60 minutes expiration time at config.auth.php, it doesn't seem to automatically remove expired tokens. So, I'm trying to make a manual function to check if reset token is still valid with this:

function validateReminderToken($token)
{
    // I want to add some filter here like
    // if (tokenExpired($token)) return false;     
    $res = DB::table('password_resets')->where('token', $token)->get();
    if (empty($res)  || $res === null) {
        return false;
    }

    $res = $res[0];
    return $res->email;
}

How can I do it? Is there some built-in way of checking if the token has expired? Thanks.

Answer 1

Use the created_at to check if a certain duration has passed from the time of insertion. For example you can do like so :

$token = DB::table('password_resets')
    ->where('token','=',$token)
    ->where('created_at','>',Carbon::now()->subHours(2))
    ->first();

Then check if the token exists.