ashallendesign / laravel-mailboxlayer
A lightweight Laravel package for validating emails using the Mailbox Layer API.
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Requires
- php: ^7.3|^8.0
- guzzlehttp/guzzle: ^6.3|^7.0
- illuminate/container: ^7.0|^8.0
Requires (Dev)
- mockery/mockery: ^1.0
- nunomaduro/larastan: ^0.6.11
- orchestra/testbench: ^4.0|^5.0|^6.0
- phpunit/phpunit: ^8.2
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Last update: 2024-10-18 22:15:00 UTC
README
Table of Contents
Overview
Laravel Mailbox Layer is a lightweight wrapper Laravel package that can be used for validating email addresses via the Mailbox Layer API. The package supports caching so that you can start validating email addresses instantly.
Installation
Requirements
The package has been developed and tested to work with the following minimum requirements:
- PHP 7.3
- Laravel 7
Install the Package
You can install the package via Composer:
composer require ashallendesign/laravel-mailboxlayer
Publish the Config
You can then publish the package's config file (so that you can make changes to them) by using the following command:
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="AshAllenDesign\MailboxLayer\Providers\MailboxLayerProvider"
Getting Your Mailbox Layer API Key
To use this package and interact with the Mailbox Layer API, you'll need to register on the Mailbox Layer API
website and get your API key. Once you have the key, you can set it in your .env
file as shown below:
MAILBOX_LAYER_API_KEY=your-api-key-here
Usage
Methods
Validating One Email Address
To validate a single email address, you can use the check()
method that is provided in the package. This method returns a ValidationResult
object.
The example below shows how to validate a single email address:
use AshAllenDesign\MailboxLayer\Classes\MailboxLayer; $mailboxLayer = new MailboxLayer('api-key-here'); $validationResult = $mailboxLayer->check('example@domain.com');
Validating Multiple Email Addresses
To validate multiple email addresses, you can use the checkMany()
method that is provided in the package. This method returns a Collection
of ValidationResult
objects.
The example below shows how to validate multiple email addresses:
use AshAllenDesign\MailboxLayer\Classes\MailboxLayer; $mailboxLayer = new MailboxLayer('api-key-here'); $validationResults = $mailboxLayer->checkMany(['example@domain.com', 'test@test.com']);
Facade
If you prefer to use facades in Laravel, you can choose to use the provided Mailbox Layer
facade instead of instantiating the AshAllenDesign\MailboxLayer\Classes\MailboxLayer
class manually.
The example below shows an example of how you could use the facade to validate an email address:
use MailboxLayer; return MailboxLayer::check('example@domain.com');
Available Validation Result Properties
Caching
Caching Validation Results
There might be times when you want to cache the validation results for an email. This can have significant performance benefits for if you try to validate the email again, due to the fact that the results will be fetched from the cache rather than from a new API request.
As an example, if you were importing a CSV containing email addresses, you might want to validate each of the addresses. However, if the
CSV contains some duplicated email addresses, it could lead to unnecessary API calls being made. So, by using the caching, each unique
address would only be fetched once from the API. To do this, you can use the shouldCache()
method.
Using caching is recommended as it reduces the chances of you reaching the monthly request limits or rate limits that are used by Mailbox Layer. Read more about the API limits here.
The example below shows how to cache the validation results:
use AshAllenDesign\MailboxLayer\Classes\MailboxLayer; $mailboxLayer = new MailboxLayer('api-key-here'); // Result fetched from the API. $validationResults = $mailboxLayer->shouldCache()->check('example@domain.com'); // Result fetched from the cache. $validationResults = $mailboxLayer->shouldCache()->check('example@domain.com');
Busting the Cached Validation Results
By default, the package will always try to fetch the validation results from the cache before trying to fetch them via the API. As mentioned before, this can lead to multiple performance benefits.
However, there may be times that you want to ignore the cached results and make a new request to the API. As an example, you
might have a cached validation result that is over 6 months old and could possibly be outdated or inaccurate, so it's likely
that you want to update the validation data and ensure it is correct. To do this, you can use the fresh()
method.
The example below shows how to fetch a new validation result:
use AshAllenDesign\MailboxLayer\Classes\MailboxLayer; $mailboxLayer = new MailboxLayer('api-key-here'); $validationResults = $mailboxLayer->fresh()->check('example@domain.com');
Options
Using HTTPS
By default, all the API requests are made using HTTPS. However, the Mailbox Layer API
allows for requests to be made using HTTP if needed. This can be particularly useful when working in a local, development environment.
To use HTTP when making the API requests, you can use the withHttps()
method.
Please note, it is not recommended making the requests over HTTP in a live, production environment!
The example below shows how to make the requests using HTTP rather than HTTPS:
use AshAllenDesign\MailboxLayer\Classes\MailboxLayer; $mailboxLayer = new MailboxLayer('api-key-here'); $validationResults = $mailboxLayer->withHttps(false)->check('example@domain.com');
Running an SMTP Check
By default, all the API requests will run an SMTP check on the email address. Running this check can improve the accuracy of the results and give better results. However, according to Mailbox Layer, running this checks take up around 75% of the API's entire response time.
So, you can reduce the overall runtime before preventing the SMTP check from running by using the withSmtpCheck()
method.
The example below shows how to validate an email address without running an SMTP check:
use AshAllenDesign\MailboxLayer\Classes\MailboxLayer; $mailboxLayer = new MailboxLayer('api-key-here'); $validationResults = $mailboxLayer->withSmtpCheck(false)->check('example@domain.com');
Read more about the SMTP check in the Mailbox Layer API docs.
Testing
vendor/bin/phpunit
Security
If you find any security related issues, please contact me directly at mail@ashallendesign.co.uk to report it.
Contribution
If you wish to make any changes or improvements to the package, feel free to make a pull request.
To contribute to this library, please use the following guidelines before submitting your pull request:
- Write tests for any new functions that are added. If you are updating existing code, make sure that the existing tests pass and write more if needed.
- Follow PSR-2 coding standards.
- Make all pull requests to the
master
branch.
Credits
- Ash Allen
- Jess Pickup (Logo)
- All Contributors
Changelog
Check the CHANGELOG to get more information about the latest changes.
License
The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.