How do you customize the default password reset email in Laravel? In this blog, we describe the process of creating mailables, apply them to your own emails and finally customizing the ‘password reset emails’ that are included in the authentication scaffolding of Laravel.

Validation of user requests is an essential part of every web application. Part of the validation process is a check whether the user input has the correct format. Is the email address entered by the user really an email address? But there is more. We have to make sure that the user who is doing the request, is actually allowed to do this. With the authorization methods of Laravel, it’s easy to set this up.

With the view composers of Laravel, it’s easy to extend your master view with dynamic information. For example, your website has a topbar in which you would like to show a message to users that are logged in (welcome firstname lastname) or you want to show the contents of the user’s shopping cart. A view composer provide these possibilities in a very clean way.

In most websites or webapplications, users are allowed to fill in some forms of which the data should be stored in a database. For example, if a new order is placed in a webshop, or a new account is created, the data entered by the user should be stored. It’s essential to validate this user input before actually saving it. Laravel has a build-in validator class to make this an easy job.

In many applications, create-read-update-delete (CRUD) operations are common tasks that are regularly performed. To optimize your workflow and keep your code clean, it is a good idea to generalize these operations. When you build a webapplication from scratch, you likely have written some wrapper functions for this purpose, but when you are using Laravel, a lot of nice features are available out of the box. In this blog, we focus on the creation of new records and the modification of existing ones.