Laravel 4: how to make confirmation email?

Question

I have made until now an app with login/register and it works fine. After the registration a welcome email is sent.

But what i would like to do is to send a link, wi

Answer 1

Here are a few clues (not gonna write the code for you).

• Add two fields to your user table: confirmation, confirmed.
• Create a route in Laravel like registration/verify/{confirmation}, in which you try and find a user in your DB with the given confirmation code (if found, set user's confirmed field to 1).
• Upon user registration, generate a unique confirmation code (you can use the str_random() helper function for this).
• Set DB entry of new user accordingly (confirmation = the random code, confirmed = 0)
• Include a verification link (built according to your verification route) with the generated confirmation code in your email to your new user.

Auth attempts can now be done like this:

$user = array(
        'username' => Input::get('username'),
        'password' => Input::get('password'),
        'confirmed' => 1
);

if (Auth::attempt($user)) {
    // success!
    return Redirect::route('restricted/area');
}