Email Verification

    Before getting started, verify that your model implements the Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail contract:

    Once this interface has been added to your model, newly registered users will automatically be sent an email containing an email verification link. As you can see by examining your application’s App\Providers\EventServiceProvider, Laravel already contains a SendEmailVerificationNotification listener that is attached to the Illuminate\Auth\Events\Registered event. This event listener will send the email verification link to the user.

    If you are manually implementing registration within your application instead of using , you should ensure that you are dispatching the Illuminate\Auth\Events\Registered event after a user’s registration is successful:

    1. use Illuminate\Auth\Events\Registered; event(new Registered($user));

    Database Preparation

    Next, your users table must contain an email_verified_at column to store the date and time that the user’s email address was verified. By default, the users table migration included with the Laravel framework already includes this column. So, all you need to do is run your database migrations:

    1. php artisan migrate

    To properly implement email verification, three routes will need to be defined. First, a route will be needed to display a notice to the user that they should click the email verification link in the verification email that Laravel sent them after registration.

    Third, a route will be needed to resend a verification link if the user accidentally loses the first verification link.

    As mentioned previously, a route should be defined that will return a view instructing the user to click the email verification link that was emailed to them by Laravel after registration. This view will be displayed to users when they try to access other parts of the application without verifying their email address first. Remember, the link is automatically emailed to the user as long as your App\Models\User model implements the MustVerifyEmail interface:

    The route that returns the email verification notice should be named verification.notice. It is important that the route is assigned this exact name since the middleware will automatically redirect to this route name if a user has not verified their email address.

    The Email Verification Handler

    Next, we need to define a route that will handle requests generated when the user clicks the email verification link that was emailed to them. This route should be named verification.verify and be assigned the auth and signed middlewares:

    1. use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\EmailVerificationRequest; Route::get('/email/verify/{id}/{hash}', function (EmailVerificationRequest $request) {    $request->fulfill();     return redirect('/home');})->middleware(['auth', 'signed'])->name('verification.verify');

    Before moving on, let’s take a closer look at this route. First, you’ll notice we are using an EmailVerificationRequest request type instead of the typical Illuminate\Http\Request instance. The EmailVerificationRequest is a that is included with Laravel. This request will automatically take care of validating the request’s id and hash parameters.

    Sometimes a user may misplace or accidentally delete the email address verification email. To accommodate this, you may wish to define a route to allow the user to request that the verification email be resent. You may then make a request to this route by placing a simple form submission button within your :

    1. use Illuminate\Http\Request; Route::post('/email/verification-notification', function (Request $request) {    $request->user()->sendEmailVerificationNotification();     return back()->with('message', 'Verification link sent!');})->middleware(['auth', 'throttle:6,1'])->name('verification.send');

    Protecting Routes

    may be used to only allow verified users to access a given route. Laravel ships with a verified middleware alias, which is an alias for the Illuminate\Auth\Middleware\EnsureEmailIsVerified class. Since this middleware is already registered in your application’s HTTP kernel, all you need to do is attach the middleware to a route definition. Typically, this middleware is paired with the auth middleware:

    If an unverified user attempts to access a route that has been assigned this middleware, they will automatically be redirected to the verification.notice named route.

    Verification Email Customization

    Although the default email verification notification should satisfy the requirements of most applications, Laravel allows you to customize how the email verification mail message is constructed.

    To get started, pass a closure to the toMailUsing method provided by the Illuminate\Auth\Notifications\VerifyEmail notification. The closure will receive the notifiable model instance that is receiving the notification as well as the signed email verification URL that the user must visit to verify their email address. The closure should return an instance of Illuminate\Notifications\Messages\MailMessage. Typically, you should call the toMailUsing method from the boot method of your application’s App\Providers\AuthServiceProvider class:

    1. use Illuminate\Auth\Notifications\VerifyEmail;use Illuminate\Notifications\Messages\MailMessage; /** * Register any authentication / authorization services. */public function boot(): void{    // ...     VerifyEmail::toMailUsing(function (object $notifiable, string $url) {        return (new MailMessage)            ->subject('Verify Email Address')            ->line('Click the button below to verify your email address.')            ->action('Verify Email Address', $url);    });}