Laravel use default email confirmation for guests - php

Question

I have a question about my code for confirmation email guests. I have a comment system. When guest read a post, he can write a comment. When he add a comment, guest need confirm email (on comment form, I have field for email). How I can correctly do email confirmation? How In Laravel, when user register.
Now I have table "guests" and a model Guest, with columns: name, email, email_token and email_verified_at (how in users table).
In model guest I have function:
public function sendEmailNotification($token)
{
$this->notify((new ReviewEmailNotification($token)));
}
When comment is created, I call observed function created and send email:
public function created(Review $review)
{
Auth::guest() ? $review->sendEmailNotification($review->email_token) : '';
}
My notification:
<?php
namespace App\Notifications;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notification;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Messages\MailMessage;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Lang;
class ReviewEmailNotification 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)
->subject(Lang::getFromJson('Verify comment'))
->line(Lang::getFromJson('Please confirm your Email:'))
->action(Lang::getFromJson('Confirm E-Mail'), url(config('app.url') . route('revemail', $this->token)))
->line(Lang::getFromJson('...'));
}
/**
* Get the array representation of the notification.
*
* #param mixed $notifiable
* #return array
*/
public function toArray($notifiable)
{
return [
//
];
}
}
My function for confirm email:
public function activateEmail($token = null)
{
$guest = Guest::where('email_token', $token)->first();
if ($review) {
$guest->email_verified_at = now();
$guest->save();
}
return redirect()->route('home');
}
And when email is verified I create record on guests table.
This solution is working. But how I can go away from email_token? In users table I have only email_verified_at without column token. And I want do token with expire date, how in laravel. Can I use default laravel email confirmation for guests?

Answer 1

Simple modify your sendEmailNotification currently which is accepting $token change it to email and in your function where you are using token change it to email like this:
open this function ReviewEmailNotification
modify like this Review::where('email',$email)
want more help then post the complete code of ReviewEmailNotification

Answer 2

finally i understand your query, you have to change the code.... Dont use the user table for that because in every post/article will publish new comment/review so guest table will be good and add post_id, user_id for email confirmation , so your new function look like this
public function created(Review $review)
{
Auth::guest() ? $review->sendEmailNotification($review-> post_id,$review->user_id,) : '';
}
public function activateEmail($token = null)
{
$guest = Guest::where('post_id', $post_id)->where('user_id', $user_id)->first();
if ($review) {
$guest->email_verified_at = now();
$guest->save();
}
return redirect()->route('home');
}
public function sendEmailNotification($user_id,$post_id)
{
$this->notify((new ReviewEmailNotification($post_id,$user_id )));
}