By verifying the users' email, we can minimize the unwanted users on our application. In Laravel, we can easily implement this feature without even sweating a bit.

Make sure your mail setting is configured

Forlaravel/ui orlaravel/breeze

The first step is implementing theMustVerifyEmail interface to the User model like this:

app\Models\User.php:

<?phpnamespaceApp\Models;useIlluminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail;useIlluminate\Database\Eloquent\Factories\HasFactory;useIlluminate\Foundation\Auth\UserasAuthenticatable;useIlluminate\Notifications\Notifiable;classUserextendsAuthenticatableimplementsMustVerifyEmail{...// Too Long For This Post}

After that, assign theverified middleware to any route you want. For example, I assigned it to the existinghome ordashboard route:

routes\web.php:

...// Laravel/UIAuth::routes(['verify'=>true]);Route::get('/home',[App\Http\Controllers\HomeController::class,'index'])->name('home')->middleware(['auth','verified']);// Laravel/BreezeRoute::get('/dashboard',function(){returnview('dashboard');})->middleware(['auth','verified'])->name('dashboard');...

Now try to register a user. When it successfully registered, you will be redirected to this page because you aren't verified yet:

Laravel/UI:

Laravel/Breeze:

Forlaravel/fortify orlaravel/jetstream

Instead of implementing theMustVerifyEmail interface to the User model, Fortify or Jetstream has its own configuration inconfig\fortify.php file to enable the email verification feature:

.../*    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------    | Features    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------    |    | Some of the Fortify features are optional. You may disable the features    | by removing them from this array. You're free to only remove some of    | these features or you can even remove all of these if you need to.    |    */'features'=>[...Features::emailVerification(),...],...

Then you should see a similar page in the jetstream app.

But if you use only Fortify, you have to manually add the view asresources\views\auth\verify-email.blade.php and maybe the other required views as well. You can borrow from Breeze or Laravel/UI and It should be work fine.

That's for this useful feature of Laravel.

versions used:

Laravel Framework: 8.x