Laravel supports verifying email addresses out of the box. This package adds support for verifying new email addresses. When a user updates its email address, it won’t replace the old one until the new one is verified. Super easy to set up, still fully customizable. If you want it can be used as a drop-in replacement for the built-in Email Verification features as this package supports unauthenticated verification and auto-login. Support for Laravel 6.0 and higher and requires PHP 7.3 or higher.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require protonemedia/laravel-verify-new-email

Configuration

Publish the database migration, config file and email view:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="ProtoneMedia\LaravelVerifyNewEmail\ServiceProvider"

You can set the redirect path in the verify-new-email.php config file. The user will be redirected to this path after verification.

Usage

Add the MustVerifyNewEmail trait to your User model and make sure it implements the framework’s MustVerifyEmail interface.

<?php

namespace App;

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

class User extends Authenticatable implements MustVerifyEmail
{
    use MustVerifyNewEmail, Notifiable;
}

Now your User model has a few new methods:

// generates a token and sends a verification mail to 'me@newcompany.com'.
$user->newEmail('me@newcompany.com');

// returns the currently pending email address that needs to be verified.
$user->getPendingEmail();

// resends the verification mail for 'me@newcompany.com'.
$user->resendPendingEmailVerificationMail();

// deletes the pending email address
$user->clearPendingEmail();

The newEmail method doesn’t update the user, its current email address stays current until the new one if verified. It stores a token (associated with the user and new email address) in the pending_user_emails table. Once the user verifies the email address by clicking the link in the mail, the user model will be updated and the token will be removed from the pending_user_emails table.

The resendPendingEmailVerificationMail does the same, it just grabs the new email address from the previous attempt.

Login after verification

The user that verified their email address will be logged in automatically. You can disable this by changing the login_after_verification configuration setting to false.

Overriding the default Laravel Email Verification

The default Laravel implementation requires the user to be logged in before it can verify its email address. If you want to use this package’s logic to handle that first verification flow as well, override the sendEmailVerificationNotification method as shown below.

<?php

namespace App;

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

class User extends Authenticatable implements MustVerifyEmail
{
    use MustVerifyNewEmail, Notifiable;

    public function sendEmailVerificationNotification()
    {
        $this->newEmail($this->getEmailForVerification());
    }
}

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