How to use Postman for Laravel POST request

Question

How can I try sending a post request to a Laravel app with Postman?

Normally Laravel has a csrf_token that we have to pass with a POST/PUT request. How can I get and send this value in Postman? Is it even possible without turning off the CSRF protection?

Answer 1

Hello @kartik,

1.You can create a new route to show the csrf token using your controller with help of the function below. (Use a Get request on the route)

   public function showToken {
      echo csrf_token(); 

    }

2.Select the Body tab on postman and then choose x-www-form-urlencoded.
3.Copy the token and paste in postman as the value of the key named _token.
4.Execute your post request on your URL/Endpoint

Hope it helps!!