Laravel 5.8 Email Verification Tutorial

Laravel 5.8 Email Verification Tutorial: Are you looking to verify email address setup in laravel 5.8, then you are the right place. In this tutorial, I will example how to set up email verification in laravel 5.8.

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How to use Laravel Email Verification?

Laravel introduce new version 5.8, Then provide email verification after registration in a new feature of laravel 5.8. Laravel provides auth to create a login, registration by default. But if you want to also add email verification then you have to just a few sets and you will be getting set up for email registration.

Laravel 5.8 Email Verification

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#1: Create a new Laravel Project

Create a new Laravel project using the below command.

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel email-verification

1	composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel email-verification

#2: Database Configuration

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=email_verify
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=your database password

DB_CONNECTION=mysql

DB_HOST=127.0.0.1

DB_PORT=3306

DB_DATABASE=email_verify

DB_USERNAME=root

DB_PASSWORD=your database password

Now migrate the tables by the following command.

php artisan migrate

1	php artisan migrate

Now, you can see the users table with one more field called email_verified_at.

The email_verified_at column which is new in Laravel 5.8. So when the user registers and verifies the email, the timestamp will be recorded here.

#3: Create Laravel 5.8 Auth

php artisan make:auth

1	php artisan make:auth

Above Command will generate a new verify.blade.php. It is new in

Laravel 5.8 for Email Verification

functionality.

@extends('layouts.app')

@section('content')
<div class="container">
    <div class="row justify-content-center">
        <div class="col-md-8">
            <div class="card">
                <div class="card-header">{{ __('Verify Your Email Address') }}</div>

                <div class="card-body">
                    @if (session('resent'))
                        <div class="alert alert-success" role="alert">
                            {{ __('A fresh verification link has been sent to your email address.') }}
                        </div>
                    @endif

                    {{ __('Before proceeding, please check your email for a verification link.') }}
                    {{ __('If you did not receive the email') }}, <a href="{{ route('verification.resend') }}">{{ __('click here to request another') }}</a>.
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
@endsection

@extends('layouts.app')

@section('content')

<div class="card-header">{{ __('Verify Your Email Address') }}</div>

@if (session('resent'))

{{ __('A fresh verification link has been sent to your email address.') }}

</div>

@endif

{{ __('Before proceeding, please check your email for a verification link.') }}

{{ __('If you did not receive the email') }}, <a href="{{ route('verification.resend') }}">{{ __('click here to request another') }}</a>.

</div>

@endsection

#4: Implement mustVerify Interface in the User Model.

In the User.php model, you can see one more contract added called MustVerifyEmail. To use the email verification process, we need to implement this contract.

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;

class User extends Authenticatable implements MustVerifyEmail
{
    use Notifiable;
  
    /**
     * The attributes that are mass assignable.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $fillable = [
        'name', 'email', 'password',
    ];

    /**
     * The attributes that should be hidden for arrays.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $hidden = [
        'password', 'remember_token',
    ];
}

<?php

namespace App;

use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;

use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;

class User extends Authenticatable implements MustVerifyEmail

{

use Notifiable;

/**

* The attributes that are mass assignable.

* @var array

protected $fillable = [

'name', 'email', 'password',

];

/**

* The attributes that should be hidden for arrays.

* @var array

protected $hidden = [

'password', 'remember_token',

];

}

#5: Add Email Verification Route.

Go inside routes>>web.php and add the following code.

Auth::routes(['verify' => true]);

1	Auth::routes(['verify' => true]);

This enables the new Verification controller with the route actions. You can see the new controller called VerificationController.php file already comes with Laravel 5.8.

public function __construct()
{
   $this->middleware(['auth', 'verified']);
}

public function __construct()

{

$this->middleware(['auth', 'verified']);

}

#6: Email Configuration.

I am using mail trap for this example. So log in to the https://mailtrap.io/signin.

You will get the mail credentials after signing up. Paste to your .env file.

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=null
MAIL_PASSWORD=null
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp

MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io

MAIL_PORT=2525

MAIL_USERNAME=null

MAIL_PASSWORD=null

MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null

So, finally

Laravel 5.8 Email Verification Tutorial Example

is over. I hope you have learned from it and will implement for your project. Thank you.