Translate Laravel’s reset password email

It takes a few steps to completely translate Laravel’s reset password email and I’m listing them here as a reminder for myself and others.

If you have a blank Laravel installation you’ll have to follow steps from the documentation to set up authentication:

https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/authentication#introduction

This will leave you with a general authentication functionality which includes forgot password emails in English. Here are the steps for fully translating the content:

Step 1: Edit the general email layout

php artisan vendor:publish

This will copy the email templates to your application and you’ll now find them in /resources/views/vendor/notifications directory. This particular layout contains some generic strings like “Hello”, “Regards”, … and you should translate those.

Step 2: Create ResetPassword notification class

php artisan make:notification ResetPassword

Make sure the class extends Illuminate\Auth\Notifications\ResetPassword:

use Illuminate\Auth\Notifications\ResetPassword as ResetPasswordNotification;

class ResetPassword extends ResetPasswordNotification
{

And update toMail function with the translation of the content of the notification:

public function toMail($notifiable)
{
    return (new MailMessage)
        ->subject('Promjena lozinke - ' . config('app.name'))
        ->line('Ovaj e-mail Vam je poslat jer ste zahtijevali promjenu lozinke za vaš nalog.')
        ->action('Promjena lozinke', url('password/reset', $this->token))
        ->line('Ukoliko nijeste zahtijevali promjenu lozinke, ignorišite ovaj e-mail.');
}

(You can open toMail function of the parent class to see the actual content in English)

Step 3: Update User class to use the new notification

You need to override sendPasswordResetNotification method in User.php class and make it look like this:

public function sendPasswordResetNotification($token)
{
   $this->notify(new ResetPassword($token));
}

Make sure you import your new ResetPassword class in User.php.

Done

That’s it, the email for resetting password is now translated. In this example I was setting fixed language strings, but you could use Laravel’s localisation to make sure multiple languages are supported