How to customize the email verification email from Laravel 5.7? - laravel-5

Question

I just upgraded to Laravel 5.7 and now I am using the built in Email Verification. However there is 2 things I have not been able to figure out and the primary issue is how can I customize the email that is being sent to the user for verifying their email? I also can't figure out how to initiate sending that email if the users changes their email but I can save that for another thread.

Answer 1

When you want to add Email Verification in Laravel 5.7 the suggested method is to implement Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail and use the Illuminate\Auth\MustVerifyEmail trait on the App\User Model.
To make some custom behaviour you can override the method sendEmailVerificationNotification which is the method that notifies the created user by calling the method notify, and passes as a parameter a new instance of the Notifications\MustVerifyEmail class.
You can create a custom Notification which will be passed as a parameter to the $this->notify() within the sendEmailVerificationNotification method in your User Model:
public function sendEmailVerificationNotification()
{
$this->notify(new App\Notifications\CustomVerifyEmail);
}
...then in your CustomVerifyEmail Notification you can define the way the verification will be handled. You can notify created user by sending an email with a custom verification.route which will take any parameters that you want.
Email verification notification process
When a new user signs-up an Illuminate\Auth\Events\Registered Event is emitted in the App\Http\Controllers\Auth\RegisterController and that Registered event has a listener called Illuminate\Auth\Listeners\SendEmailVerificationNotification which is registered in the App\Providers\EventServiceProvider:
protected $listen = [
Registered::class => [
SendEmailVerificationNotification::class,
]
];
The SendEmailVerificationNotification listener checks if the $user – which is passed as a parameter to new Registered($user = $this->create($request->all())) in the Laravel default authentication App\Http\Controllers\Auth\RegisterController – is an instance of Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail which is the name of the trait that Laravel suggests is used in the App\User Model when you want to provide default email verification and also check that $user is not already verified. If all that passes, the sendEmailVerificationNotification method is called on that user:
if ($event->user instanceof MustVerifyEmail && !$event->user->hasVerifiedEmail()) {
$event->user->sendEmailVerificationNotification();
}

Answer 2

I think the simple way to do this is to make a new notification using the docs here: https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/notifications#creating-notifications
Then override the function:
public function sendEmailVerificationNotification()
{
$this->notify(new App\Notifications\CustomEmailNotification);
}
In the users model.
Or you can
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-notifications
This will copy the templates to the resources/views/vendor/notifications directory and you can modify them there

Answer 3

Unfortunately this email that is sent out is not from a "view", it is a Notification that is built inline actually. This is where it is currently built when needing to be sent off: Illuminate\Auth\Notifications\VerifyEmail#toMail. This particular class has a static callback that can be set to build this email instead of letting it do it.
In a Service Provider in the boot method you will need to assign a callback for this class:
Something "like" this might work:
public function boot()
{
\Illuminate\Auth\Notifications\VerifyEmail::toMailUsing(function ($notifiable) {
// this is what is currently being done
// adjust for your needs
return (new \Illuminate\Notifications\Messages\MailMessage)
->subject(\Lang::getFromJson('Verify Email Address'))
->line(\Lang::getFromJson('Please click the button below to verify your email address.'))
->action(
\Lang::getFromJson('Verify Email Address'),
$this->verificationUrl($notifiable)
)
->line(\Lang::getFromJson('If you did not create an account, no further action is required.'));
});
}
As this is a notification you should have more options on customizing it.
If you want to use your own Notification class you can override the sendEmailVerificationNotification method on the User (Authenticatable) model (this is from the MustVerifyEmail trait).
Second Question:
The VerificationController (App\Http\Controllers\Auth\VerificationController) that you should have has a method named resend (from the trait VerifiesEmails) that looks like a good candidate for this purpose.
You should have routes setup for these verification routes via Auth::routes(['verify' => true]);
Note:
The verification system uses a field on the users table email_verified_at in 5.7 to mark this. You would want to make sure you have this field. When the user changes email address I suppose you could make this null then redirect them to the resend route, to send off the new verification. This will put them into an "unverified" state though until they reverify, if that is what you intend to happen.
Update:
Seems we were going down the right track. I found this SO answer that goes over similar things:
Changing the default “subject” field for the verification email in laravel 5.7

Answer 4

For quick and easy way:
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-notifications
It's creating a new file in:
\resources\views\vendor\notifications
This is Laravel's email themplate. You can change and customize it.

Answer 5

I'll show you how to customize User verification email using custom view from scratch without using any vendor publish
Step: 1
Create a new notification UserVerifyNotification class. It should extend the VerifyEmail class from the library Illuminate\Auth\Notifications\VerifyEmail;
Code :
use Illuminate\Auth\Notifications\VerifyEmail;
...
class UserVerifyNotification extends VerifyEmail implements ShouldQueue
{
use Queueable;
public $user; //you'll need this to address the user
/**
* Create a new notification instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct($user='')
{
$this->user = $user ?: Auth::user(); //if user is not supplied, get from session
}
/**
* Get the notification's delivery channels.
*
* #param mixed $notifiable
* #return array
*/
public function via($notifiable)
{
return ['mail'];
}
/**
* Get the mail representation of the notification.
*
* #param mixed $notifiable
* #return \Illuminate\Notifications\Messages\MailMessage
*/
public function toMail($notifiable)
{
$actionUrl = $this->verificationUrl($notifiable); //verificationUrl required for the verification link
$actionText = 'Click here to verify your email';
return (new MailMessage)->subject('Verify your account')->view(
'emails.user-verify',
[
'user'=> $this->user,
'actionText' => $actionText,
'actionUrl' => $actionUrl,
]);
}
/**
* Get the array representation of the notification.
*
* #param mixed $notifiable
* #return array
*/
public function toArray($notifiable)
{
return [
//
];
}
}
Step:2
Create the blade view for the email (user-verify.blade.php) inside resources\views\emails
<DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<p>Dear {{$user->name}},</p>
<p>
Please click the button below to verify your email address.
</p>
{{$actionText}}
<p>If you did not create an account, no further action is required.</p>
<p>
Best regards, <br>
{{ config('app.name')}}
</p>
<p>
<hr>
<span class="break-all">
<strong>If you’re having trouble clicking the link, copy and paste the URL below into your web browser:</strong><br/>
<em>{{$actionUrl}}</em>
</p>
</body>
</html>
Step:3
Add the following method inside the User model
class User extends Authenticatable implements MustVerifyEmail
{
use HasFactory, Notifiable;
...
...
...
public function sendEmailVerificationNotification()
{
$this->notify(new \App\Notifications\UserVerifyNotification(Auth::user())); //pass the currently logged in user to the notification class
}
}
Explanation
When a new user is registered, the Registered event (Illuminate\Auth\Events) is called.
There is a listener inside EventServiceProvider (App\Providers\EventServiceProvider) that listens to the Registered event. 1. Once registration is completed, it calls SendEmailVerificationNotification method (Illuminate\Auth\Listeners\SendEmailVerificationNotification).
The listener (step-2) calls the sendEmailVerificationNotification() method from the library Illuminate\Auth\Listeners\SendEmailVerificationNotification
We now override the sendEmailVerificationNotification() function in Step: 3 and indicate that we would like to use our own notification class which we made earlier in Step: 1
The notification class gets the 'verification link' and calls the 'user-verify' blade to send email with the necessary link as defined in Step: 2
You'll need to add routes required for verification. Just add the following route in the web.php file
Auth::routes([
'verify' => true,
'register' => true,
]);

Answer 6

Building slightly on the answer by Andrew Earls, you can also publish all the markdown mail components used by the application with this command:
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-mail
Once that's done you'll have a series of html and markdown files to modify in resources/views/vendor/mail. This will allow you to modify the overall email layout and also 'theme' the CSS. I'd highly recommend having a good read of the Mail docs - Customizing The Components.
CSS theming
As a general email theming quick-start (Laravel 5.7), you can:
Publish the theme with php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-mail .
Copy resources/views/vendor/mail/html/themes/default.css to your own file. e.g resources/views/vendor/mail/html/themes/wayne.css
Edit config/mail.php and where you see 'theme' => 'default' change it to 'theme' => 'wayne'
Edit wayne.css to restyle your emails.
Hope that helps someone.

Answer 7

To send verification email you can just use the next code:
// send new verification email to user
$user->sendEmailVerificationNotification();

Answer 8

In Route File
Auth::routes(['verify' => true]);
In AppServiceProvider.php File
namespace App\Providers;
use App\Mail\EmailVerification;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
use View;
use URL;
use Carbon\Carbon;
use Config;
use Illuminate\Auth\Notifications\VerifyEmail;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Messages\MailMessage;
class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
/**
* Register any application services.
*
* #return void
*/
public function register()
{
//
}
/**
* Bootstrap any application services.
*
* #return void
*/
public function boot()
{
// Override the email notification for verifying email
VerifyEmail::toMailUsing(function ($notifiable){
$verifyUrl = URL::temporarySignedRoute('verification.verify',
\Illuminate\Support\Carbon::now()->addMinutes(\Illuminate\Support\Facades
\Config::get('auth.verification.expire', 60)),
[
'id' => $notifiable->getKey(),
'hash' => sha1($notifiable->getEmailForVerification()),
]
);
return new EmailVerification($verifyUrl, $notifiable);
});
}
}
Now Create EmailVerification With Markdown
php artisan make:mail EmailVerification --markdown=emails.verify-email
Edit The EmailVerrification as you want and the blade file
class EmailVerification extends Mailable
{
use Queueable, SerializesModels;
public $verifyUrl;
protected $user;
/**
* Create a new message instance.
*
* #return void
*/
public function __construct($url,$user)
{
$this->verifyUrl = $url;
$this->user = $user;
}
/**
* Build the message.
*
* #return $this
*/
public function build()
{
$address = 'mymail#gmail.com';
$name = 'Name';
$subject = 'verify Email';
return $this->to($this->user)->subject($subject)->from($address, $name)->
markdown('emails.verify',['url' => $this->verifyUrl,'user' => $this->user]);
}
}
in the blade file change the design as you want and use verifyUrl to display the verification link and $user to display user information
thanks, happy coding :)

Answer 9

Navigate to these files
vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Auth/MustVerifyEmail.php
vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Auth/Notifications/VerifyEmail.php
and then customize it.
you can even introduce a constructor in
vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Auth/Notifications/VerifyEmail.php
and pass value through vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Auth/MustVerifyEmail.php
eg: