Email Verification in Laravel 5.1.* - laravel-5.1

Question

I want to add email verification on my laravel app. Just after submitting the registration form the user will get an email with confirmation link. How can I implement this by using laravel's default auth controller? I have added two fields on my user table (confirmed, confirmation_code). Please someone help me...

Answer 1

As per our comment thread, here's how you can integrate it in to the AuthController. There may be better ways to do this, but it has worked a charm for me.
public function postRegister(Request $request)
{
//Run validator checks....
$confirmation_code = str_random(30);
$newUser = new User;
$newUser->username = $request->username;
$newUser->email = $request->email;
$newUser->password = bcrypt($request->password);
$newUser->confirmation_code = $confirmation_code;
$newUser->save();
$data = array('confirmation_code' => $confirmation_code);
Mail::send('emails.verify', $data, function ($message) use ($newUser){
$message->to($newUser->email, $newUser->username);
$message->subject('Please verify your email address');
});
//Continue on with any other logic
}

Answer 2

It was for when they are in the logged in state. Fortunately I managed to solve this one. I changed my Authenticate middleware like this:
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
if ($this->auth->guest()) {
if ($request->ajax()) {
return response('Unauthorized.', 401);
} else {
return redirect()->guest('auth/login');
}
} elseif (!\Auth::user()->is_activated()) {
\Session::flash('message', 'Please activate your account to proceed.');
return redirect()->guest('/notice/activate');
}
return $next($request);
}