Enable Account Activation in Order to Login to the System.

readme.md

Before proceed, you may want to follow up Send Welcome Email Notification with Event and Listener.

Step 1

Create new migration script to add activation_token and activated_at column in users table.

php artisan make:migration add_activation_column --table=users

And add as following:

<?php

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

class AddActivationColumn extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->string('activation_token', 64)->nullable();
            $table->datetime('activated_at')->nullable();
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        Schema::table('users', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->dropColumn('activation_token');
            $table->dropColumn('activated_at');
        });
    }
}

Then do migrate:

php artisan migrate

Step 2

Set route to activation. Open up routes/web.php and add the following:

Route::get(
	'account/activate/{token}', 
	'Auth\ActivationController@activate'
)->name('account.activate');

Step 3

Create new controller to handle account activation

php artisan make:controller Auth/ActivationController

And update as following the controller:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Auth;

use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\User;
use Carbon\Carbon;

class ActivationController extends Controller
{
    public function activate($token)
    {
        // find token based on id
        $user = User::where('activation_token', $token)->first();

        if ($user) {

            // update activation account details
            $user->activation_token = null;
            $user->activated_at = Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
            $user->save();

            // login using id
            auth()->loginUsingId($user->id);

            // redirect to home
            return redirect('/home');
        } else {
            return 'Invalid token. <a href="' . route('account.activation.request') . '" >Resend activation email</a>'; 
        }
    }
}

Step 4

Create SendActivationEmailListener listener on user registration by register App\Listeners\SendActivationEmailListener to Illuminate\Auth\Events\Registered in app\Providers\EventServiceProvider.php.

protected $listen = [
    'Illuminate\Auth\Events\Registered' => [
        'App\Listeners\SendActivationEmailListener',
    ],
];

php artisan event:generate

Step 5

Create token for activation and send out account activation email.

<?php

namespace App\Listeners;

use App\Notifications\SendActivationEmail;
use Illuminate\Auth\Events\Registered;

class SendActivationEmailListener
{
    /**
     * Create the event listener.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct()
    {
        //
    }

    /**
     * Handle the event.
     *
     * @param  IlluminateAuthEventsRegistered  $event
     * @return void
     */
    public function handle(Registered $event)
    {
        // create a random token
        $token = str_random(64);
        $event->user->activation_token = $token;
        $event->user->save();

        // send notification
        $event->user->notify(
            new SendActivationEmail($token)
        );
    }
}

Step 6

Create new notification

php artisan make:notification SendActivationEmail

And paste the following:

<?php

namespace App\Notifications;

use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Messages\MailMessage;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notification;

class SendActivationEmail extends Notification
{
    use Queueable;

    public $token;
    /**
     * Create a new notification instance.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function __construct($token)
    {
        $this->token = $token;
    }

    /**
     * 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)
    {
        return (new MailMessage)
            ->line('Click the button below to activate your account.')
            ->action('Activate',
                route('account.activate', [
                    'token' => $this->token,
                ]))
            ->line('Thank you for using our application!');
    }

    /**
     * Get the array representation of the notification.
     *
     * @param  mixed  $notifiable
     * @return array
     */
    public function toArray($notifiable)
    {
        return [
            //
        ];
    }
}

Step 7

Now you should be ready to register an account and will receive an email for account activation.

Registering a listener in app\Providers\EventServiceProvider.php is skipped in this post?