Confirmation messages are emails that are sent to a client when completing an action to confirm the operation carried out, for example, changing a password, recovering a username, purchasing a product, etc., this in any web system that includes some interaction with the user is a fundamental task, therefore, we will learn to send emails from Laravel.
In Laravel, we have access to a function that we can use to confirm a user's registration.
Send confirmation messages programmatically
From a user instance, we have access to a function that sends the confirmation email to verify a user by email:
$user->sendEmailVerificationNotification();Of course, for this you must have configured your SMTP server to send emails.
And remember to implement in your user model the classe MustVerifyEmail:
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail;
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class User extends Authenticatable implements MustVerifyEmailNow with this, you can make use of the previous function; when using it, you will receive an email like the following:
Extra: Rest Api for users to verify
Here I leave you a common use of this function on a Rest Api to register users and verify them; we have an exclusive function to send user verification emails:
class UserController extends Controller
{
/**
* Register
*/
public function register(Request $request)
{
$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), StoreUser::myRules());
if ($validator->fails())
return $this->errorResponse($validator->errors(), 422);
try {
$user = new User();
$user->name = $request->name;
$user->email = $request->email;
$user->password = Hash::make($request->password);
$user->save();
if ($request->subscribed) {
Subscribe::create(['email' => $request->email]);
}
$success = true;
$message = 'User register successfully';
} catch (\Illuminate\Database\QueryException $ex) {
$success = false;
$message = $ex->getMessage();
}
// response
$response = [
'success' => $success,
'message' => $message,
];
$credentials = [
'email' => $request->email,
'password' => $request->password,
];
Auth::attempt($credentials);
$user->sendEmailVerificationNotification();
return $this->successResponse($response);
}
public function verifie()
{
$user = Auth::user() ?? auth('sanctum')->user();
$userModel = User::find($user->id);
$userModel->sendEmailVerificationNotification();
return $this->successResponse("ok");
}As you can see, we have a registration function, in which we obtain the user's data and once registered, we start the session with sendEmailVerificationNotification and send the email with the function explained in this post.
And a check function for you to run programmatically; In this example, we are using a Rest Api in Laravel with Laravel Sanctum with tokens, but you can use any type to verify user accounts.
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