Laravel Recaptcha Trait

RecaptchaTrait.php

<?php namespace App\Http;

/**
* Need to create goog recaptcha data before usage
*/
use Request;

trait RecaptchaTrait {

	public function validateCaptchaString($secret, $response_string, $remote_ip)
	{

		$options = [
			CURLOPT_POST => true,
			CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
			CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => [
					'secret' => $secret,
					'response' => $response_string,
					'remoteit' => $remote_ip
				]
		];



		$response = $this->_submitRequest($options);

		$success_code = $response['success'];

		if(! $success_code)
			throw new \Exception('Failed recaptcha validation.');

		return true;
	}

	private function _submitRequest($options)
	{
		$request = CURLRequest::simpleRequest('https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify', $options);

		$response = json_decode($request, true);

		return $response;

	}
}

class CURLRequest
{


	/**
	 * Submit a simple curl request
	 * @param  string $url     The URL to ping
	 * @param  array $options  Curl Options
	 * @return string          The response from the CURL request
	 */
	public static function simpleRequest($url, array $options)
	{

		$ch = curl_init($url);
		curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
		$content = curl_exec($ch);

		curl_close($ch);


		if(is_null($content) || ! $content) {
			throw new \Exception('No response from ' . $url);
		}

		return $content;
	}

}