How to customize the email verification email from Laravel 5.7?

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();
}