Laravel 8 Activate Account after Email Verification Example
Activate account after email verification is the today's topic.Many web applications require users to verify their email addresses before using the application. Rather than forcing you to re-implement this on each application, Laravel provides convenient methods for sending and verifying email verification requests.
But here i am going to customize this basic default auth mechanism. In this tutorial i will show you from scratch laravel email verification with activation code. When a user will create an account then we will send activation token in their mail address. When they click that activation token then they will be treated as varified user.
Laravel provides the aasic authentication out of the box which includes the basic login, registration, and password reset functionalities. These functionalities can be easily customized. This is the beauty of Laravel framework. In this tutorial we are going to customize the basic registration functionality of the Laravel and acount activation functionality after user registration.
Email Verification and Why It’s Important
Before sending any other email to the address you collected you should always verify that the owner of the email address is the same entity who provided it to you. This is not only helpful to the registrant (as in the "forgot password" scenario described in another answer) and collector (improving the quality of the collection) but also the owner of the email address (especially if this is not the same person as the registrant).
We can avoid spam email or false email from registration. So email verification after registration in laravel is important for every web application. In this tutorial we don't customize laravel default auth rather we will create our own custom email verification after registration in laravel 7 application.
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So, let’s get.
Step 1: Setup route
First we have to create our route.
routes\web.php
Route::get('/user-register', 'RegisterController@ShowRegisterForm')->name('register');
Route::post('/user-register', 'RegisterController@HandleRegister');
Route::get('/user-login', 'LoginController@ShowLoginForm')->name('login');
Route::post('/user-login', 'LoginController@HandleLogin');
Route::get('/verify/{token}', 'VerifyController@VerifyEmail')->name('verify');
Step 2: Create a validation trait
Before submitting our form data , we have to validate our input form data. So now create a Trait like following path and paste the following code.
App\Validation\RegisterRequest.php
namespace App\Validation;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Validator;
Trait RegisterRequest
{
public function inputDataSanitization($data)
{
$validator = Validator::make($data, [
'name' => 'required',
'email' => 'required',
'password' => 'required|min:6|confirmed',
]);
if($validator->fails()){
return redirect()->back()->withErrors($validator)->withInput();
}
return $validator;
}
public function loginDataSanitization($data)
{
$validator = Validator::make($data, [
'email' => 'required',
'password' => 'required|min:6|confirmed',
]);
if($validator->fails()){
return redirect()->back()->withErrors($validator)->withInput();
}
return $validator;
}
}
Step 3: Setup RegisterController
App\Http\Controllers\RegisterController.php
namespace App\Http\Controllers\Frontend\Auth;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\Mail\VerificationEmail;
use App\User;
use App\Validation\RegisterRequest;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Validator;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;
class RegisterController extends Controller
{
use RegisterRequest;
public function ShowRegisterForm()
{
return view('authentication.register');
}
public function HandleRegister(Request $request)
{
$this->inputDataSanitization($request->all());
$user = User::create([
'name' => trim($request->input('name')),
'email' => strtolower($request->input('email')),
'password' => bcrypt($request->input('password')),
'email_verification_token' => Str::random(32)
]);
\Mail::to($user->email)->send(new VerificationEmail($user));
session()->flash('message', 'Please check your email to activate your account');
return redirect()->back();
}
}
Step 4: Setup LoginController
App\Http\Controllers\LoginController.php
namespace App\Http\Controllers\Frontend\Auth;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\User;
use App\Validation\RegisterRequest;
use Carbon\Carbon;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class LoginController extends Controller
{
use RegisterRequest;
public function ShowLoginForm()
{
return view('authentication.login');
}
public function HandleLogin(Request $request)
{
$this->loginDataSanitization($request->except(['_token']));
$credentials = $request->except(['_token']);
$user = User::where('email',$request->email)->first();
if($user->email_verified == 1){
if (auth()->attempt($credentials)) {
$user = auth()->user();
$user->last_login = Carbon::now();
$user->save();
return redirect()->route('home');
}
}
session()->flash('message', 'Invalid Credentials');
session()->flash('type', 'danger');
return redirect()->back();
}
}
Step 5: Setup VerifyController
app\Http\Controllers\VerifyController.php
namespace App\Http\Controllers\Frontend;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\User;
use Carbon\Carbon;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class VerifyController extends Controller
{
public function VerifyEmail($token = null)
{
if($token == null) {
session()->flash('message', 'Invalid Login attempt');
return redirect()->route('login');
}
$user = User::where('email_verification_token',$token)->first();
if($user == null ){
session()->flash('message', 'Invalid Login attempt');
return redirect()->route('login');
}
$user->update([
'email_verified' => 1,
'email_verified_at' => Carbon::now(),
'email_verification_token' => ''
]);
session()->flash('message', 'Your account is activated, you can log in now');
return redirect()->route('login');
}
}
Step 6: Create Mail
Now we have to create our mail for sending our token to user. So run below comand to create a mail
php artisan make:mail VerificationEmail
Step 6: Setup VerificationEmail
app\Mail\VerificationEmail.php
namespace App\Mail;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Mail\Mailable;
use Illuminate\Queue\SerializesModels;
class VerificationEmail extends Mailable
{
use Queueable, SerializesModels;
public $user;
public function __construct($user)
{
$this->user = $user;
}
public function build()
{
return $this->view('verifyEmail');
}
}
Step 6: Setup verifyEmail Blade File
resourses\views\verifyEmail.php
Now open your config\mail.php and make your file like below to send mail to user. This is for your local server.
config\mail.php
'driver' => env('MAIL_DRIVER', 'smtp'),
'host' => env('MAIL_HOST', 'mailtrap.io'),
'port' => env('MAIL_PORT', 2525),
Now setup your .env file using your credentilas. Visit here mailtrap to create an account.
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=9e7bb1e65d6ca6
MAIL_PASSWORD=fd8d3a959fa4c3
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
Now finally we have to create User table. So open your users table and paste this following code.
use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
class CreateUsersTable extends Migration
{
public function up()
{
Schema::create('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
$table->bigIncrements('id');
$table->string('name');
$table->string('email')->unique();
$table->string('password');
$table->timestamp('email_verified_at')->nullable();
$table->integer('email_verified')->default(0);
$table->string('email_verification_token');
$table->string('photo')->nullable();
$table->timestamp('last_login')->nullable();
$table->rememberToken();
$table->softDeletes();
$table->timestamps();
});
}
public function down()
{
Schema::dropIfExists('users');
}
}
Now everything is ok. So now just we have to create our Login and Register blade template.
resourses\views\authentication\register.blade.php
resourses\views\authentication\login.blade.php
Now all are ok. So now you can test your app to check email verification before login. Hope it will help you.
