Today just asked myself if i can change user password in Laravel via command line, so things will be easier for us to work with Laravel products. I bet many of you use default Laravel user model (which is good for us in this case). if you do, this article is for you, i found an interesting tool within Laravel command line interface name ‘tinker’

if you use Ruby on Rails, you can think of Laravel tinker tool as something like `rails console` command , it allows you to interact with your application, you can access directly to models, helpers, classes …etc… Have you started liking it yet ? 😉

ok, it’s time to get to main purpose of this article – to change user password with tinker tool – a brief introduction to tinker tool . i will make it step-by-step

Step 1 – start laravel tinker tool

cd <your_larave_project_directory_path>
php artisan tinker
Psy Shell v0.4.4 (PHP 5.5.28 — cli) by Justin Hileman
>>>

now you can start typing whatever you like behind >>> prommpt.

Step 2 – Access to User Model

>>> $user = App\User::where('email', 'nd.thanh@outlook.com')->first();
=> <App\User #0000000051a8ab8a000000014bcb4fe8> {
id: 342,
name: 'Thanh, nguyen',
email: 'nd.thanh@outlook.com',
created_at: '2015-09-21 19:28:14',
updated_at: '2015-09-23 07:48:14',
company: null,
api_key: null,
cb_user_id: '',
firstname: null,
lastname: null,
timezone: null,
last_activity: null,
enabled: null,
avatar: '',
identifier: '',
admin_hash: 'admin:9569a4dc201b26a01f19dd7594843da1',
group_id: 0,
role_id: 0
}

so this is the query `App\User::where(’email’, ‘nd.thanh@outlook.com’)->first();` , we have an user instance for my user account now. let’s update password for this user account

Step 3 – update password
Laravel uses Bcrypt to make password hash by default, which means you can generate a password like string with this command

>>> echo Hash::make('yourpassword');
$2y$10$AR.gZdnx6rc9NLLtnuoPzOpOy3D/NZ.GqhFAl0lO0EgJ8boyqX8yK
=> null

ok, we know how to make password , time to update user instance

>>> $user->password = Hash::make('abc123');
=> '$2y$10$At6GpoCsB.BQOacms87fAubGRMtu2UqJ44f53IN2EdT43IGDI.5oO'

>>> $user->save()
=> true

that’s it. my new password is now ‘abc123’ , you can change yours to what ever you like.