Login Registration System with Email Verification in Laravel 5.8

Do you know you can make complete login registration system in Laravel 5.8 with email verification in single artisan command run. If you not know then this post will help you to learn Laravel login authentication and register with step by step guide from scratch. Because Laravel 5.8 has default Login Registration authentication system, so you can make complete login register system in Laravel 5.8 in single run of artisan command run. Here we will discuss step by step process to build Login authentication and register system in Larave 5.8 application. You don't have write any line of code for make login and register system in Laravel 5.8 application. Last release of Laravel 5.8 introduce new features with improvements. So, by using that new features we will make login and register system by using one artisan command like php artisan make:auth. It will create default controllers file, views blade file and set routes for Login and register system.

In this login registration system here we will also covered email verification feature also. So, here we will learn how to verify email address after user has done registration in Laravel 5.8 application. For email verification here we will use new Laravel feature like MustEmailVerify contracts. When user will verify email and it will authenticate and redirect to Laravel user dashboard. If User register and he has not verify his email address then user will not access dashboard of Laravel 5.8 application. In Laravel 5.8 email verification process is very simple and easy to use. We can also modify default Laravel email template and we can create custom email template of email verification, forget password and password reset. If you have use Laravel default Login Registration system then it will reduce your most of time of development.

Install Laravel 5.8

First we want to install Laravel 5.8 fresh set up in out system. For this we have to open terminal and write below command.

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel firstApp

Configure .env file

Once you have done install Laravel 5.8 application, in next step we want to configuare .env file for Mysql configuration and email sending configuration.

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=testing
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtpout.secureserver.net
MAIL_PORT=80
MAIL_USERNAME=xxxxx
MAIL_PASSWORD=xxxxx
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null

Generate Laravel 5.8 Application Key

After .env configuration completed then we have to generate application. For this we have to go command prompt and write following command for genrate laravel application key.

php artisan key:generate

Laravel 5.8 Database Migration

For make Login Register system we have to make User table in Mysql database. Here we will make User table from this Laravel 5.8 application by migrating database. But before migrating database by using command. First we have to open app/providers/AppServiceProvider.php and add two line of code under boot method.

<?php

namespace App\Providers;

use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

use Schema;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * Register any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function register()
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Bootstrap any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot()
    {
        Schema::defaultStringLength(191);
    }
}

?>

After this we have to go to command prompt and write following command, it will automatic create tables in mysql database and it will also create migration file.

php artisan migrate

After migrating of database, User.php file will be make under app folder. So, we have to open that file and add MustVerifyEmail contracts under the constuctor method. It is for enable email verification.

app/User.php

<?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',
    ];
}

?>

Laravel 5.8 Authentication

Here we will use Laravel 5.8 default Login Register system by using Laravel 5.8 authentication. For this we have to write following command in command prompt. This command will create controllers, routes and views files for Laravel authentication and registration.

php artisan make:auth

Add Route

For Email Verification, we need to add route under routes/web.php file.

<?php

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Web Routes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here is where you can register web routes for your application. These
| routes are loaded by the RouteServiceProvider within a group which
| contains the "web" middleware group. Now create something great!
|
*/

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});

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

Route::get('/home', 'HomeController@index')->name('home');

Add middleware in Controller

After this we need to add middleware in Controller constuctor. For this we have to open app/Http/Controllers/HomeController.php file and add $this->middleware([‘auth’, ‘verified’]); this line under constructor.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class HomeController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Create a new controller instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->middleware(['auth', 'verified']);
    }

    /**
     * Show the application dashboard.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Contracts\Support\Renderable
     */
    public function index()
    {
        return view('home');
    }
}

?>

Run Laravel 5.8 application

For run Laravel 5.8 application, we have to go to command prompt and write following command. It will start Laravel 5.8 application and return base url of your Laravel 5.8 application.

php artisan serve

This is complete step by step process for build User Login Register System in Laravel 5.8 application by using default Laravel 5.8 authentication.