Laravel 5.2 - Auth: display custom error messages

Question

How can I customize the error messages (such as \"These credentials do not match our records.\") that are displayed upon unsuccessful login/registration without

Answer 1

You can override getFailedLoginMessage on the AuthController which comes from the AuthenticatesUsers trait

protected function getFailedLoginMessage()
{
    return 'what you want here.';
}

Or not override it and set a lang value for auth.failed. The getFailedLoginMessage method will check for Lang::has('auth.failed') and use that if its available.

For the actual validation error messages you can override the postLogin and pass your own array of messages to validate, or if you wanted to change them globally you can adjust them in the appropriate lang file in resources/lang/{lang}/validation.php.