Send activation link to user by email (Invitation system) - with working code

[RokSiEu]

Hi,

I needed invitation system that will send activation email to user, after user visits the link his profile will be activated.

I thought I should share my code if someone will found it useful.

Blade:

{{ Form::open(array('url' => 'user/invite')) }}
    <input type="hidden" name="csrf_token" id="csrf_token" value="{{{ Session::getToken() }}}" />

    <div class="{{{ $errors->has('first_name') ? 'error' : '' }}}">
        <label for="first_name">Name</label>
        <input type="text" name="first_name" id="first_name" value="" />
        {{{ $errors->first('first_name') }}}
    </div>

    <div class="{{{ $errors->has('email') ? 'error' : '' }}}">
        <label for="email">Email</label>
        <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" />
        {{{ $errors->first('email') }}}
    </div>

    <div class="{{{ $errors->has('password') ? 'error' : '' }}}">
        <label for="password">Password</label>
        <input type="password" name="password" id="password" value="" />
        {{{ $errors->first('password') }}}
    </div>

<input type="hidden" name="activation" id="activation" value="1" />
    {{ Form::submit('Povabi',array('class' => 'button'));}}
{{ Form::close() }} 

UserController@postInvite

public function postInvite()
    {
         // Declare the rules for the form validation
                $rules = array(
                        'first_name'       => 'required|min:3',                       
                        'email'            => 'required|email|unique:users',                      
                        'password'         => 'required|between:3,32',
                );

                // Create a new validator instance from our validation rules
                $validator = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules);

                // If validation fails, we'll exit the operation now.
                if ($validator->fails())
                {
                        // Ooops.. something went wrong
                        return Redirect::back()->withInput()->withErrors($validator);
                }

                try
                {
                        // Register the user
                        $user = Sentry::register(array(
                                'username'   => Input::get('first_name'),
                                'first_name' => Input::get('first_name'),
                                'email'      => Input::get('email'),
                                'password'   => Input::get('password'),
                        ));

                        // Data to be used on the email view
                        $data = array(
                                'user'          => $user,
                                'activationUrl' => URL::route('activate', $user->getActivationCode()),
                        );

                        // Send the activation code through email
                        Mail::send('emails.auth.invite', $data, function($m) use ($user)
                        {
                                $m->from('testingmail@gmail.com','test');
                                $m->to($user->email, $user->first_name . ' ' . $user->last_name);
                                $m->subject('Hello' . $user->first_name);
                        });

                        // Redirect to the register page
                        return Redirect::back()->with('success','Activation mail was sent!');
                }
                catch (Cartalyst\Sentry\Users\UserExistsException $e)
                {
                        $this->messageBag->add('email','Something went wrong!');
                }

                // Ooops.. something went wrong
                return Redirect::back()->withInput()->withErrors($this->messageBag);
    }

userController@getActivate

public function getActivate($activationCode = null)
        {
                // Is the user logged in?
                if (Sentry::check())
                {
                        return Redirect::to('projects');
                }

                try
                {
                        // Get the user we are trying to activate
                        $user = Sentry::getUserProvider()->findByActivationCode($activationCode);

                        // Try to activate this user account
                        if ($user->attemptActivation($activationCode))
                        {
                                // Redirect to the login page
                                return Redirect::to('user/login')->with('success', 'Your profile is activated. Now you can log in!');
                        }

                        // The activation failed.
                        $error = 'Something went wrong!';
                }
                catch (Cartalyst\Sentry\Users\UserNotFoundException $e)
                {
                        $error = $e;
                }

                // Ooops.. something went wrong
                return Redirect::to('user/login')->with('error', $error);
        }

[RokSiEu]

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