Password Broker in Laravel

1. Password Broker in Laravel
- by Samarth Sinha

2. Password Broker
Password Broker in laravel is used to reset
forgotten password for users. PasswordBroker
class will create a token for user and send an
email for the set new password link, where user
can set a new password.

3. PasswordBroker Functions
 createToken(CanResetPassword $user)
 Create a new password reset token for the
given user.
 That token will be send to the user with
the link to reset the password.
 A new record will be saved in
password_reset table.

4. PasswordBroker Functions
 deleteToken(CanResetPassword $user)
 Delete password reset tokens of the given
user.
 The record which was created in the
password_reset table will also be deleted.

5. PasswordBroker Functions
 tokenExists(CanResetPassword $user,
string $token)
 Validate the given password reset token.
 This function will check if the token passed
in the argument exists for that given user.

6. PasswordBroker Functions
 sendResetLink(array $credentials)
 Send a password reset link to a user.
 This function will create a token and send
an email with the password reset link to
the user.