imranali/verify-email

Verify email if it exist or not

dev-master 2019-11-29 07:44 UTC

Requires

• php: >=7.0.0
• laravel/framework: ~5.5.0|~5.6.0|~5.7.0|~5.8.0|~6.0.0

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ^8.4@dev

MIT

• imran ali

• laravel
• validate email
• email verify

README

This is a simple package that verify email if it is exist or not, This is useful for those who want to get real Email address from users. Get real email address while registering users, for app or newsletter. You can also check email is exist or not before sending email to users. It prevents from black listing your server, or hard bouncing .

• Save you from hard bouncing
• Most of the companies buy SMTP email subscritpion, they have limited credits, you can use this simple package to save your email credits

1. Requirements

• Laravel 5.5.x to 6.0.x
• PHP >= 7.0

2. Installation

1. Require the package using composer

   composer require imranali/verify-email

2. Add the service provider to the providers in config/app.php

   ImranAli\VerifyEmail\VerifyEmailServiceProvider::class

   and add Facade as alias in app/config.php

   'Verifyemail' => ImranAli\VerifyEmail\Facades\verifyEmailFacade::class,

   Laravel 5.5 >= uses package auto discovery, so you do not need to register service provider and Facade manually

3. Publish the configuration

   php artisan vendor:publish --provider="ImranAli\VerifyEmail\VerifyEmailServiceProvider"

3. Usage

You have to call checkEmail() method, it takes one argument which is email address that needs to be validate

Verifyemaill::checkEmail('[e-mail]');

It returns true if email exist otherwise false

This package comes with few configuration, You can change settings accordingly, configuration contains one field from_email make sure to set valid email address, because this email address will be used to sent request from.

You can also set email at runtime for example using Facade

Verifyemail::setEmailFrom('[e-mail]');

It also has one helper method that can be used to validate email address pattern

Verifyemail::validate('[e-mail]')

Here is a complete demo code

// can also be set email at runtime (optional), it is good to set in config file
Verifyemail::setEmailFrom('[e-mail]');

// email address to check
$email = '[e-mail]';
if (Verifyemail::checkEmail($email)) {
    echo 'email <' . $email . '> exist!';
} elseif (Verifyemail::validate($email)) {
    echo 'email <' . $email . '> valid, but not exist!';
} else {
    echo 'email <' . $email . '> not valid and not exist!';
}