Laravel: Why Laravel accessor not work getIsVerifiedAttribute()? - php

Question

I need to check the email of my users. So I add a new attribute to my User model named "is_verified" that returns me a boolean to know if the user has checked the email or not.
I running on PHP 7.2.5 with PHPUnit 7.5.15 and Laravel 5.8
model: User.php
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;
class User extends Authenticatable
{
use Notifiable;
/**
* The attributes that are mass assignable.
*
* #var array
*/
protected $fillable = [
'email', 'password', 'token', 'email_verified_at'
];
/**
* The attributes that should be hidden for arrays.
*
* #var array
*/
protected $hidden = [
'password',
];
/**
* The attributes that should be cast to native types.
*
* #var array
*/
protected $casts = [
'email_verified_at' => 'datetime',
];
/**
* Retrive if user as vierfied
*
* #return boolean
*/
public function getIsVerifiedAttribute()
{
// dump(!is_null($this->email_verfied_at));
return !is_null($this->email_verfied_at);
}
/**
* Set if user is verified
*
* #param boolean $status
* #return void
*/
public function setIsVerifiedAttribute(bool $value)
{
if ($value) {
$this->attributes['token'] = null;
$this->attributes['email_verified_at'] = now();
} else {
$this->attributes['token'] = self::generateToken();
$this->attributes['email_verified_at'] = null;
}
}
/**
* Generate token to verify email
*
* #param integer $length
* #return string
*/
public static function generateToken(int $length = 64): string
{
$token = Str::random($length);
if (self::where('token', $token)->exists())
{
return self::generateToken($length);
}
return $token;
}
}
My unit test:
/** #test */
public function check_if_user_as_validate_email()
{
$user = factory(User::class)->create();
$this->assertFalse($user->is_verified);
$user->is_verified = true;
$user->save();
$this->assertTrue($user->is_verified);
$user->is_verified = false;
$user->save();
$this->assertFalse($user->is_verified);
}
The functions do not return me the good value every time

Answer 1

The reason your test isn't working is because you have a typo in your getIsVerifiedAttribute accessor. email_verfied_at should be email_verified_at.
public function getIsVerifiedAttribute()
{
return !is_null($this->email_verified_at);
}
Out-of-the-box, the User factory sets the email_verified_at field for you so I would suggest you change the code in your test for creating a User to:
$user = factory(User::class)->create([
'email_verified_at' => null
]);
This next bit is just an FYI but there are already methods included in with Laravel to check if a User is verified or not and to set the email_verified_at value:
$user->hasVerifiedEmail();
and
$user->markEmailAsVerified();