In Laravel, we can easily setup email verification. Today, I’ll share the way to verify email in Laravel.

Table of Contents

Let’s follow these steps:

1. Install Laravel and Basic Configurations
2. Setup Email Configuration
3. Authentication Scaffolding
4. Implement MustVerifyEmail
5. Configure Auth Route
6. Test Email Verification

Step 1 : Install Laravel and Basic Configurations

Each Laravel project needs this thing. That’s why I have written an article on this topic. Please see this part from here: Install Laravel and Basic Configurations.

After doing the basic configuration, migrate the tables by this command:

php artisan migrate

Now, look at the ‘users’ table. You will find a field named ‘email_verified_at‘.

Step 2 : Setup Email Configuration

Open .env file and enter your email SMTP credentials. I’m using
https://mailtrap.io/ for testing purpose. You can also get demo credentials from mailtrap.

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

Step 3 : Authentication Scaffolding

Go to the terminal and type this command:

php artisan make:auth

Navigate to resources/views folder and you will see some blade files included verify.blade.php

Step 4 : Implement MustVerifyEmail

Open User model from app/User.php and implements MustVerifyEmail in User class. So the code will look like:

<?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',
    ];

    /**
     * The attributes that should be cast to native types.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $casts = [
        'email_verified_at' => 'datetime',
    ];
}

Step 5 : Configure Auth Route

In this step, we need to add extra parameter inside Auth::routes(). Open routes/web.php and do the change like this:

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

This enables the new Verification controller with the route actions. You can find the VerificationController.php file in app/Http/Controllers/Auth folder.

To protect the HomeController route, we need to do this in __construct() method:

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

By this method, we can give access to verified users to any controller.

Step 6 : Test Email Verification

Open a browser and go to your project by entering http://localhost:8000/register. I’m using a custom domain in localhost project. So that I’m opening https://laravel.dev/register (Custom Domain with SSL). Fill up the registration form:

After clicking on Register button, you will see like this:

Now, check your inbox to see the verification email. I’m checking mailtrap’s demo inbox.

When I clicked on ‘Verify Email Address’, it redirected me to the home page. I have checked the database and saw that the email_verified_at field has been updated.

We are done!