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PHP Laravel 4 Basics Blade & Forms Form Builder

Ryan Meyer
Ryan Meyer
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Posted by Ryan Meyer
Ryan Meyer
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Laravel 5 - TokenMismatchException in VerifyCsrfToken.php line 46:

Whoops, looks like something went wrong. 1/1 TokenMismatchException in VerifyCsrfToken.php line 46:

I received this error message when trying to POST the first form that Hampton built when it was suppose to return "creating a new list"

1 Answer

Ryan Meyer
Ryan Meyer
6,927 Points
Ryan Meyer
Ryan Meyer
6,927 Points

I had to add an extra line to the form that Hampton magically created in this video. Laravel now requires a token to be sent when using the POST method in forms.

<input type="hidden" name="_token" value="{{{ csrf_token() }}}" />
uxeric
uxeric
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uxeric
uxeric
6,263 Points

To know why you need to do this, you can check out this video for a good explanation of Cross Site Request Forgery.