Laravel 5 Send Password Reset Link using Ajax

Question

I have this code:

jQuery.ajax({
    type:"POST",
    url:"/password/email/",
    data:{
        _token: jQuery("#forgotPasswordContainer input[name='_token']").val(),
        email: email
    },
    dataType:'json',
    beforeSend:function(){

    },
    success:function(data){

    },
    complete:function(){

    }
});

it seems that it is doing nothing.

When I checked firebug, i am getting an html page containing the html of /password/email page.

I am guessing I need to modify how sending password reset link works.

Can someone help me on this matter.

Your help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Answer 1

Ok, I managed to solved this one by putting this on my PasswordController.php

public function getEmail(Request $request)
{
    $this->validate($request, ['email' => 'required|email']);

    $response = $this->passwords->sendResetLink($request->only('email'), function($m)
    {
        $m->subject($this->getEmailSubject());
    });

    switch ($response)
    {
        case PasswordBroker::RESET_LINK_SENT:
            return[
                'error'=>'false',
                'msg'=>'A password link has been sent to your email address'
            ];

        case PasswordBroker::INVALID_USER:
            return[
                'error'=>'true',
                'msg'=>"We can't find a user with that email address"
            ];
    }
}

I am not sure if this is efficient but this works for me. Hope this helps someone.

Thanks!

Answer 2

Laravel 5.2

If you want to customized or changed the POST URL that you send via AJAX here is the complete answer:

ajax.js:

jQuery.ajax({
    type:"POST",
    url:"/user/password/reset",
    data:{
        _token: jQuery("#forgotPasswordContainer input[name='_token']").val(),
        email: email
    },
    dataType:'json',
    beforeSend:function(){

    },
    success:function(data){

    },
    complete:function(){

    }
});

routes.php:

Route::post('user/password/reset', [
      'uses'         => 'Controller_name@index'
]);

App/Http/Controllers/Controller_name.php:

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

use App\Http\Requests;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\PasswordBroker;

class Controller_name extends Controller
{
    public function index(Request $request, PasswordBroker $passwords)
    {
        if( $request->ajax() )
        {
            $this->validate($request, ['email' => 'required|email']);

            $response = $passwords->sendResetLink($request->only('email'));

            switch ($response)
            {
                case PasswordBroker::RESET_LINK_SENT:
                   return[
                       'error'=>'false',
                       'msg'=>'A password link has been sent to your email address'
                   ];

                case PasswordBroker::INVALID_USER:
                   return[
                       'error'=>'true',
                       'msg'=>"We can't find a user with that email address"
                   ];
            }
        }
        return false;
    }
}

resources/views/

Create a new directory auth > emails > password.blade.php for email template:

Click here to reset your password .<br />
<a target="_blank" href="{{ url('password/reset', $token).'?email='.urlencode($user->getEmailForPasswordReset()) }}">Click to Reset Password</a>