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MySQL is an outstanding database for online transaction processing. With suitable hardware, it is easy to execute more than 1M queries per second and handle tens of thousands of simultaneous connections. Many of the most demanding web applications on the planet are built on MySQL. With capabilities like that, why would MySQL users need anything else?  

Well, analytic queries for starters. Analytic queries answer important business questions like finding the number of unique visitors to a website over time or figuring out how to increase online purchases. They scan large volumes of data and compute aggregates, including sums, averages, and much more complex calculations besides. The results are invaluable but can bog down online transaction processing on MySQL. 

Fortunately, there’s ClickHouse: a powerful analytic database that pairs well with MySQL. Altinity is working closely with our partner Percona to help users add ClickHouse easily to existing MySQL applications. You can read more about our partnership in our recent press release as well as about our joint MySQL-to-ClickHouse solution. 

This article provides tips on how to recognize when MySQL is overburdened with analytics and can benefit from ClickHouse’s unique capabilities. We then show three important patterns for integrating MySQL and ClickHouse. The result is more powerful, cost-efficient applications that leverage the strengths of both databases. 

Signs that indicate MySQL needs analytic help

Let’s start by digging into some obvious signs that your MySQL database is overburdened with analytics processing. 

Huge tables of immutable data mixed in with transaction tables 

Tables that drive analytics tend to be very large, rarely have updates, and may also have many columns. Typical examples are web access logs, marketing campaign events, and monitoring data. If you see a few outlandishly large tables of immutable data mixed with smaller, actively updated transaction processing tables, it’s a good sign your users may benefit from adding an analytic database. 

Complex aggregation pipelines

Analytic processing produces aggregates, which are numbers that summarize large datasets to help users identify patterns. Examples include unique site visitors per week, average page bounce rates, or counts of web traffic sources. MySQL may take minutes or even hours to compute such values. To improve performance it is common to add complex batch processes that precompute aggregates. If you see such aggregation pipelines, it is often an indication that adding an analytic database can reduce the labor of operating your application as well as deliver faster and more timely results for users. 

MySQL is too slow or inflexible to answer important business questions

A final clue is the in-depth questions you don’t ask about MySQL-based applications because it is too hard to get answers. Why don’t users complete purchases on eCommerce sites?  Which strategies for in-game promotions have the best payoff in multi-player games? Answering these questions directly from MySQL transaction data often requires substantial time and external programs. It’s sufficiently difficult that most users simply don’t bother. Coupling MySQL with a capable analytic database may be the answer. 

Why is ClickHouse a natural complement to MySQL? 

MySQL is an outstanding database for transaction processing. Yet the features of MySQL that make it work well–storing data in rows, single-threaded queries, and optimization for high concurrency–are exactly the opposite of those needed to run analytic queries that compute aggregates on large datasets.

ClickHouse on the other hand is designed from the ground up for analytic processing. It stores data in columns, has optimizations to minimize I/O, computes aggregates very efficiently, and parallelizes query processing. ClickHouse can answer complex analytic questions almost instantly in many cases, which allows users to sift through data quickly. Because ClickHouse calculates aggregates so efficiently, end users can pose questions in many ways without help from application designers. 

These are strong claims. To understand them it is helpful to look at how ClickHouse differs from MySQL. Here is a diagram that illustrates how each database pulls in data for a query that reads all values of three columns of a table. 

MySQL stores table data by rows. It must read the whole row to get data for just three columns. MySQL production systems also typically do not use compression, as it has performance downsides for transaction processing. Finally, MySQL uses a single thread for query processing and cannot parallelize work. 

By contrast, ClickHouse reads only the columns referenced in queries. Storing data in columns enables ClickHouse to compress data at levels that often exceed 90%. Finally, ClickHouse stores tables in parts and scans them in parallel.

The amount of data you read, how greatly it is compressed, and the ability to parallelize work make an enormous difference. Here’s a picture that illustrates the reduction in I/O for a query reading three columns.  

MySQL and ClickHouse give the same answer. To get it, MySQL reads 59 GB of data, whereas ClickHouse reads only 21 MB. That’s close to 3000 times less I/O, hence far less time to access the data. ClickHouse also parallelizes query execution very well, further improving performance. It is little wonder that analytic queries run hundreds or even thousands of times faster on ClickHouse than on MySQL. 

ClickHouse also has a rich set of features to run analytic queries quickly and efficiently. These include a large library of aggregation functions, the use of SIMD instructions where possible, the ability to read data from Kafka event streams, and efficient materialized views, just to name a few. 

There is a final ClickHouse strength: excellent integration with MySQL. Here are a few examples. 

• ClickHouse can ingest mysqldump and CSV data directly into ClickHouse tables. 
• ClickHouse can perform remote queries on MySQL tables, which provides another way to explore as well as ingest data quickly. 
• The ClickHouse query dialect is similar to MySQL, including system commands like SHOW PROCESSLIST, for example. 
• ClickHouse even supports the MySQL wire protocol on port 3306. 

For all of these reasons, ClickHouse is a natural choice to extend MySQL capabilities for analytic processing. 

Why is MySQL a natural complement to ClickHouse? 

Just as ClickHouse can add useful capabilities to MySQL, it is important to see that MySQL adds useful capabilities to ClickHouse. ClickHouse is outstanding for analytic processing but there are a number of things it does not do well. Here are some examples.  

• Transaction processing – ClickHouse does not have full ACID transactions. You would not want to use ClickHouse to process online orders. MySQL does this very well. 
• Rapid updates on single rows – Selecting all columns of a single row is inefficient in ClickHouse, as you must read many files. Updating a single row may require rewriting large amounts of data. You would not want to put eCommerce session data in ClickHouse. It is a standard use case for MySQL. 
• Large numbers of concurrent queries – ClickHouse queries are designed to use as many resources as possible, not share them across many users. You would not want to use ClickHouse to hold metadata for microservices, but MySQL is commonly used for such purposes. 

In fact, MySQL and ClickHouse are highly complementary. Users get the most powerful applications when ClickHouse and MySQL are used together. 

Introducing ClickHouse to MySQL integration

There are three main ways to integrate MySQL data with ClickHouse analytic capabilities. They build on each other. 

• View MySQL data from ClickHouse. MySQL data is queryable from ClickHouse using native ClickHouse SQL syntax. This is useful for exploring data as well as joining on data where MySQL is the system of record.
• Move data permanently from MySQL to ClickHouse. ClickHouse becomes the system of record for that data. This unloads MySQL and gives better results for analytics. 
• Mirror MySQL data in ClickHouse. Make a snapshot of data into ClickHouse and keep it updated using replication. This allows users to ask complex questions about transaction data without burdening transaction processing. 

Viewing MySQL data from ClickHouse

ClickHouse can run queries on MySQL data using the MySQL database engine, which makes MySQL data appear as local tables in ClickHouse. Enabling it is as simple as executing a single SQL command like the following on ClickHouse:

CREATE DATABASE sakila_from_mysql
ENGINE=MySQLDatabase('mydb:3306', 'sakila', 'user', 'password')

Here is a simple illustration of the MySQL database engine in action. 

The MySQL database engine makes it easy to explore MySQL tables and make copies of them in ClickHouse. ClickHouse queries on remote data may even run faster than in MySQL! This is because ClickHouse can sometimes parallelize queries even on remote data. It also offers more efficient aggregation once it has the data in hand. 

Moving MySQL data to ClickHouse

Migrating large tables with immutable records permanently to ClickHouse can give vastly accelerated analytic query performance while simultaneously unloading MySQL. The following diagram illustrates how to migrate a table containing web access logs from ClickHouse to MySQL. 

On the ClickHouse side, you’ll normally use MergeTree table engine or one of its variants such as ReplicatedMergeTree. MergeTree is the go-to engine for big data on ClickHouse. Here are three important features that will help you get the most out of ClickHouse. 

1. Partitioning – MergeTree divides tables into parts using a partition key. Access logs and other big data tend to be time ordered, so it’s common to divide data by day, week, or month. For best performance, it’s advisable to pick a number that results in 1000 parts or less. 
2. Ordering – MergeTree sorts rows and constructs an index on rows to match the ordering you choose. It’s important to pick a sort order that gives you large “runs” when scanning data. For instance, you could sort by tenant followed by time. That would mean a query on a tenant’s data would not need to jump around to find rows related to that tenant. 
3. Compression and codecs – ClickHouse uses LZ4 compression by default but also offers ZSTD compression as well as codecs. Codecs reduce column data before turning it over to compression. 

These features can make an enormous difference in performance. We cover them and add more performance tips in Altinity videos (look here and here.) as well as blog articles.

The ClickHouse MySQL database engine can also be very useful in this scenario. It enables ClickHouse to “see” and select data from remote transaction tables in MySQL. Your ClickHouse queries can join local tables on transaction data whose natural home is MySQL. Meanwhile, MySQL handles transactional changes efficiently and safely. 

Migrating tables to ClickHouse generally proceeds as follows. We’ll use the example of the access log shown above. 

1. Create a matching schema for the access log data on ClickHouse. 
2. Dump/load data from MySQL to ClickHouse using any of the following tools:
   1. Mydumper – A parallel dump/load utility that handles mysqldump and CSV formats. 
   2. MySQL Shell – A general-purpose utility for managing MySQL that can import and export tables. 
   3. Copy data using SELECT on MySQL database engine tables.
   4. Native database commands – Use MySQL SELECT OUTFILE to dump data to CSV and read back in using ClickHouse INSERT SELECT FROM file(). ClickHouse can even read mysqldump format.  
3. Check performance with suitable queries; make adjustments to the schema and reload if necessary. 
4. Adapt front end and access log ingest to ClickHouse. 
5. Run both systems in parallel while testing. 
6. Cut over from MySQL only to MySQL + ClickHouse Extension. 

Migration can take as little as a few days but it’s more common to take weeks to a couple of months in large systems. This helps ensure that everything is properly tested and the roll-out proceeds smoothly.  

Mirroring MySQL Data in ClickHouse

The other way to extend MySQL is to mirror the data in ClickHouse and keep it up to date using replication. Mirroring allows users to run complex analytic queries on transaction data without (a) changing MySQL and its applications or (b) affecting the performance of production systems. 

Here are the working parts of a mirroring setup. 

ClickHouse has a built-in way to handle mirroring: the experimental MaterializedMySQL database engine, which reads binlog records directly from the MySQL primary and propagates data into ClickHouse tables. The approach is simple but is not yet recommended for production use. It may eventually be important for 1-to-1 mirroring cases but needs additional work before it can be widely used. 

Altinity has developed a new approach to replication using Debezium, Kafka-compatible event streams, and the Altinity Sink Connector for ClickHouse. The mirroring configuration looks like the following. 

The externalized approach has a number of advantages. They include working with current ClickHouse releases, taking advantage of fast dump/load programs like mydumper or direct SELECT using MySQL database engine, support for mirroring into replicated tables, and simple procedures to add new tables or reset old ones. Finally, it can extend to multiple upstream MySQL systems replicating to a single ClickHouse cluster. 

ClickHouse can mirror data from MySQL thanks to the unique capabilities of the ReplacingMergeTree table. It has an efficient method of dealing with inserts, updates, and deletes that is ideally suited for use with replicated data. As mentioned already, ClickHouse cannot update individual rows easily, but it inserts data extremely quickly and has an efficient process for merging rows in the background. ReplicatingMergeTree builds on these capabilities to handle changes to data in a “ClickHouse way.”  

Replicated table rows use version and sign columns to represent the version of changed rows as well as whether the change is an insert or delete. The ReplacingMergeTree will only keep the last version of a row, which may in fact be deleted. The sign column lets us apply another ClickHouse trick to make those deleted rows inaccessible. It’s called a row policy. Using row policies we can make any row where the sign column is negative disappear.  

Here’s an example of ReplacingMergeTree in action that combines the effect of the version and sign columns to handle mutable data. 

Mirroring data into ClickHouse may appear more complex than migration but in fact is relatively straightforward because there is no need to change MySQL schema or applications and the ClickHouse schema generation follows a cookie-cutter pattern. The implementation process consists of the following steps. 

1. Create schema for replicated tables in ClickHouse. 
2. Configure and start replication from MySQL to ClickHouse. 
3. Dump/load data from MySQL to ClickHouse using the same tools as migration. 

At this point, users are free to start running analytics or build additional applications on ClickHouse whilst changes replicate continuously from MySQL. 

Tooling improvements are on the way!

MySQL to ClickHouse migration is an area of active development both at Altinity as well as the ClickHouse community at large.  Improvements fall into three general categories.  

Dump/load utilities – Altinity is working on a new utility to move data that reduces schema creation and transfer of data to a single.  We will have more to say on this in a future blog article. 

Replication – Altinity is sponsoring the Sink Connector for ClickHouse, which automates high-speed replication, including monitoring as well as integration into Altinity.Cloud. Our goal is similarly to reduce replication setup to a single command. 

ReplacingMergeTree – Currently users must include the FINAL keyword on table names to force the merging of row changes. It is also necessary to add a row policy to make deleted rows disappear automatically.  There are pull requests in progress to add a MergeTree property to add FINAL automatically in queries as well as make deleted rows disappear without a row policy. Together they will make handling of replicated updates and deletes completely transparent to users. 

We are also watching carefully for improvements on MaterializedMySQL as well as other ways to integrate ClickHouse and MySQL efficiently. You can expect further blog articles in the future on these and related topics. Stay tuned!

Wrapping up and getting started

ClickHouse is a powerful addition to existing MySQL applications. Large tables with immutable data, complex aggregation pipelines, and unanswered questions on MySQL transactions are clear signs that integrating ClickHouse is the next step to provide fast, cost-efficient analytics to users. 

Depending on your application, it may make sense to mirror data onto ClickHouse using replication or even migrate some tables into ClickHouse. ClickHouse already integrates well with MySQL and better tooling is arriving quickly. Needless to say, all Altinity contributions in this area are open source, released under Apache 2.0 license. 

The most important lesson is to think in terms of MySQL and ClickHouse working together, not as one being a replacement for the other. Each database has unique and enduring strengths. The best applications will build on these to provide users with capabilities that are faster and more flexible than using either database alone. 

Percona, well-known experts in open source databases, partners with Altinity to deliver robust analytics for MySQL applications. If you would like to learn more about MySQL integration with ClickHouse, feel free to contact us or leave a message on our forum at any time. 

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Updated on July 29th, 2020.

When a new user clicks on the Sign up button of an app, he or she usually gets a confirmation email with an activation link (see examples here). This is needed to make sure that the user owns the email address entered during the sign-up. After the click on the activation link, the user is authenticated for the app.

From the user’s standpoint, the email verification process is quite simple. From the developer’s perspective, things are much trickier unless your app is built with Laravel. Those who use Laravel 5.7+ have the user email verification available out-of-the-box. For earlier releases of the framework, you can use a dedicated package to add email verification to your project. In this article, we’ll touch upon each solution you can choose. 

Basic project to be used as an example

Since email verification requires one to send emails in Laravel, let’s create a basic project with all the stuff needed for that. Here is the first command to begin with:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel app

Now, let’s create a database using the mysql client and then configure the .env file thereupon:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=DB-laravel
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=root

Run the migrate command to create tables for users, password resets, and failed jobs:

php artisan migrate

Since our Laravel app will send a confirmation email, we need to set up the email configuration in the .env file.

For email testing purposes, we’ll use Mailtrap Email Sandbox, which captures SMTP traffic from staging and allows developers to debug emails without the risk of spamming users.

The Email Sandbox is one of the SMTP drivers in Laravel. All you need to do is sign up and add your credentials to .env, as follows:

MAIL_MAILER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=<********> //Your Mailtrap username
MAIL_PASSWORD=<********> //Your Mailtrap password
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls

For more on Mailtrap features and functions, read the Mailtrap Getting Started Guide.

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Scaffold UI

In Laravel, you can scaffold the UI for registration, login, and forgot password using the php artisan make:auth command. However, it was removed from Laravel 6. In the latest releases of the framework, a separate package called laravel/ui is responsible for the login and registration scaffolding with React, Vue, jQuery and Bootstrap layouts. After you install the package, you can use the php artisan ui vue --auth command to scaffold UI with Vue, for example.

Set up email verification in Laravel 5.7+ using the MustVerifyEmail contract

The Must Verify Email contract is a feature that allows you to send email verification in Laravel by adding a few lines of code to the following files:

App/User.php:

Implement the MustVerifyEmail contract in the User model:

<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
class User extends Authenticatable implements MustVerifyEmail
{
    use Notifiable;
    protected $fillable = [
        'name', 'email', 'password',
    ];
    protected $hidden = [
        'password', 'remember_token',
    ];
}

routes/web.php

Add such routes as email/verify and email/resend to the app:

Route::get('/', function () {
    return view('welcome');
});
Auth::routes(['verify' => true]);
Route::get('/home', 'HomeController@index')->name('home');

app/Http/Controllers/HomeController.php

Add the verified and auth middlewares:

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class HomeController extends Controller
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->middleware(['auth','verified']);
    }
    public function index()
    {
        return view('home');
    }
} 

Now you can test the app. 

And that’s what you’ll see in the Mailtrap Demo inbox:

Customization

On screenshots above, the default name of the app, Laravel, is used as a sender’s name. You can update the name in the .env file:

APP_NAME=<Name of your app>

To customize notifications, you need to override the sendEmailVerificationNotification method of the App\User class. It is a default method, which calls the notify method to notify the user after the sign-up.

For more on sending notifications in Laravel, read our dedicated blog post. 

To override sendEmailVerificationNotification, create a custom Notification and pass it as a parameter to $this->notify() within sendEmailVerificationNotification in the User Model, as follows:

public function sendEmailVerificationNotification()
{
    $this->notify(new \App\Notifications\CustomVerifyEmail);
}

Now, in the created Notification, CustomVerifyEmail, define the way to handle the verification. For example, you can use a custom route to send the email. 

How can I manually verify users?

The MustVerifyEmail class is a great thing to use. However, you may need to take over the control and manually verify email addresses without sending emails. Why would anyone do so? Reasons may include a need to create and add system users that have no accessible email addresses, import a list of email addresses (verified) to a migrated app, and others. 

So, each manually created user will see the following message when signing in:

The problem lies in the timestamp in the Email Verification Column (email_verified_at) of the user table. When creating users manually, you need to validate them by setting a valid timestamp. In this case, there will be no email verification requests. Here is how you can do this:

markEmailAsVerified()

The markEmailAsVerified() method allows you to verify the user after it’s been created. Check out the following example:

$user = User::create([
    'name' => 'John Doe',
    'email' => 'john.doe@example.com',
    'password' => Hash::make('password')
]);
$user->markEmailAsVerified();

forceCreate()

The forceCreate() method can do the same but in a slightly different way:

$user = User::forceCreate([
    'name' => 'John Doe',
    'email' => john.doe@example.com',
    'password' => Hash::make('password'),
    'email_verified_at' => now() //Carbon instance
]);

Manually set a valid timestamp

The most obvious way is to set a valid timestamp in the email_verified_at column. To do this, you need to add the column to the $fillable array in the user model. For example, like this:

protected $fillable = [
    'name', 'email', 'password', 'email_verified_at',
];

After that, you can use the email_verified_at value within the create method when creating a user:

$user = User::create([
    'name' => 'John Doe',
    'email' => john.doe@example.com',
    'password' => Hash::make('password'),
    'email_verified_at' => now() //Carbon instance
]);

Laravel queuing for email verification

The idea of queuing is to dispatch the processing of particular tasks, in our case, email sending, until a later time. This can speed up processing if your app sends large amounts of emails. It would be useful to implement email queues for the built-in Laravel email verification feature. The simplest way to do that is as follows:

• Create a new notification, e.g., CustomVerifyEmailQueued, which extends the existing one, VerifyEmail. Also, the new notification should implement the ShouldQueue contract. This will enable queuing. Here is how it looks:

namespace App\Notifications;
use Illuminate\Bus\Queueable;
use Illuminate\Contracts\Queue\ShouldQueue;
use Illuminate\Auth\Notifications\VerifyEmail;
class CustomVerifyEmailQueued extends VerifyEmail implements ShouldQueue
{
    use Queueable;
}

public function sendEmailVerificationNotification()
{
    $this->notify(new \App\Notifications\CustomVerifyEmailQueued);
}

We did not touch upon configuration of the queue driver here, which is “sync” by default without actual queuing. If you need some insight on that, check out this Guide to Laravel Email Queues.

Set up email verification in Laravel using the laravel-confirm-email package 

The laravel-confirm-email package is an alternative way to set up email verification in 5.8 and older versions of Laravel. It works, however, also for the newest releases. You’re likely to go with it if you’re looking for Laravel to customize verification of emails. For example, the package allows you to set up your own confirmation messages and change all possible redirect routes. Let’s see how it works.

Installation

Install the laravel-confirm-email package, as follows:

composer require beyondcode/laravel-confirm-email

You also need to add two fields to your users table: confirmed_at and confirmation_code. For this, publish the migration and the configuration file, as follows:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="BeyondCode\EmailConfirmation\EmailConfirmationServiceProvider"

Run the migrations after:

php artisan migrate

Setting up

We need to replace the default traits with those provided by laravel-confirm-email in the following files:

app\Http\Controllers\Auth\LoginController.php

use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\AuthenticatesUsers;

• laravel-confirm-email trait

use BeyondCode\EmailConfirmation\Traits\AuthenticatesUsers;

app\Http\Controllers\Auth\RegisterController.php

use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\RegistersUsers;

• laravel-confirm-email trait

use BeyondCode\EmailConfirmation\Traits\RegistersUsers;

app\Http\Controllers\Auth\ForgotPasswordController.php

use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\SendsPasswordResetEmails;

• laravel-confirm-email trait

use BeyondCode\EmailConfirmation\Traits\SendsPasswordResetEmails;

Add the routes to app/routes/web.php:

Route::name('auth.resend_confirmation')->get('/register/confirm/resend', 'Auth\RegisterController@resendConfirmation');
Route::name('auth.confirm')->get('/register/confirm/{confirmation_code}', 'Auth\RegisterController@confirm');

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Error/confirmation messages 

To set up flash messages that show up after a user clicks on the verification link, append the code to the following files:

resources\views\auth\login.blade.php

    @if (session('confirmation'))
        <div class="alert alert-info" role="alert">
            {!! session('confirmation') !!}
        </div>
    @endif
    @if ($errors->has('confirmation') > 0 )
        <div class="alert alert-danger" role="alert">
            {!! $errors->first('confirmation') !!}
        </div>
    @endif

resources\views\auth\passwords\email.blade.php

    @if ($errors->has('confirmation') > 0 )
        <div class="alert alert-danger" role="alert">
            {!! $errors->first('confirmation') !!}
        </div>
    @endif

Customization

Updated the resources/lang/vendor/confirmation/en/confirmation.php file if you want to use custom error/confirmation messages:

<?php
return [
    'confirmation_subject' => 'Email verification',
    'confirmation_subject_title' => 'Verify your email',
    'confirmation_body' => 'Please verify your email address in order to access this website. Click on the button below to verify your email.',
    'confirmation_button' => 'Verify now',
    'not_confirmed' => 'The given email address has not been confirmed. <a href=":resend_link">Resend confirmation link.</a>',
    'not_confirmed_reset_password' => 'The given email address has not been confirmed. To reset the password you must first confirm the email address. <a href=":resend_link">Resend confirmation link.</a>',
    'confirmation_successful' => 'You successfully confirmed your email address. Please log in.',
    'confirmation_info' => 'Please confirm your email address.',
    'confirmation_resent' => 'We sent you another confirmation email. You should receive it shortly.',
];

You can modify all possible redirect routes (the default value is route('login')) in the registration controller. Keeping in mind that the app was automatically bootstrapped, the registration controller is at app/Http/Controllers/Auth/RegisterController.php. Just include the following values either as properties or as methods returning the route/URL string:

• redirectConfirmationTo – is opened after the user completed the confirmation (opened the link from the email)
• redirectAfterRegistrationTo – is opened after the user submitted the registration form (it’s the one where “Go and verify your email now”)
• redirectAfterResendConfirmationTo – is opened when you ask to resend the email

By redefining the redirect routes you can change not only the flash message but also the status page which you show to the user.

Set up email verification in Laravel 5.4-5.6 using the laravel-email-verification package

The laravel-email-verification package has been deemed an obsolete solution due to the release of MustVerifyEmail. Nevertheless, you can still use the package to handle email verification in older Laravel versions (starting from 5.4). 

Installation 

Install the package, as follows:

composer require josiasmontag/laravel-email-verification

Register the service provider in the configuration file (config/app.php):

'providers' => [
    Lunaweb\EmailVerification\Providers\EmailVerificationServiceProvider::class,
],

In Laravel 5.5, this should have been done automatically, but it did not work for us (version 5.5.48).

You need to update the users table with a verified column. For this, you can publish the migration:

php artisan migrate --path="/vendor/josiasmontag/laravel-email-verification/database/migrations"

If you want to customize the migration, use the following command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Lunaweb\EmailVerification\Providers\EmailVerificationServiceProvider" --tag="migrations"

And run the migrations after:

php artisan migrate

Setting up

Traits

CanVerifyEmail is a trait to be implemented in the User Model. You can customize this trait to change the activation email address.

use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
use Lunaweb\EmailVerification\Traits\CanVerifyEmail;
use Lunaweb\EmailVerification\Contracts\CanVerifyEmail as CanVerifyEmailContract;
class User extends Authenticatable implements CanVerifyEmailContract
{
    use CanVerifyEmail;
    // ...
}

VerifiesEmail is a trait for RegisterController. To let the authenticated users access the verify routes, update the middleware exception: 

use Lunaweb\EmailVerification\Traits\VerifiesEmail;
class RegisterController extends Controller
{
    use RegistersUsers, VerifiesEmail;
    public function __construct()
    {
          $this->middleware('guest', ['except' => ['verify', 'showResendVerificationEmailForm', 'resendVerificationEmail']]);
          $this->middleware('auth', ['only' => ['showResendVerificationEmailForm', 'resendVerificationEmail']]);
    }
    // ...
}

The package listens for the Illuminate\Auth\Events\Registered event and sends the verification email. Therefore, you don’t have to override register(). If you want to disable this behavior, use the listen_registered_event setting.

Middleware

Add the IsEmailVerified middleware to the app/Http/Kernel.php:

protected $routeMiddleware = [
    // …
    'isEmailVerified' => \Lunaweb\EmailVerification\Middleware\IsEmailVerified::class,

And apply it in routes/web.php:

<?php
Route::group(['middleware' => ['web', 'auth', 'isEmailVerified']], function () {
	// Verification
	Route::get('register/verify', 		  'App\Http\Controllers\Auth\RegisterController@verify')->name('verifyEmailLink');
	Route::get('register/verify/resend',  'App\Http\Controllers\Auth\RegisterController@showResendVerificationEmailForm')->name('showResendVerificationEmailForm');
	Route::post('register/verify/resend', 'App\Http\Controllers\Auth\RegisterController@resendVerificationEmail')->name('resendVerificationEmail')->middleware('throttle:2,1');
});

Customization

To customize the verification email, override sendEmailVerificationNotification() of the User model. For example:

class User implements CanVerifyEmailContract
{
    use CanVerifyEmail;
    /**
     * Send the email verification notification.
     *
     * @param  string  $token   The verification mail reset token.
     * @param  int  $expiration The verification mail expiration date.
     * @return void
     */
    public function sendEmailVerificationNotification($token, $expiration)
    {
        $this->notify(new MyEmailVerificationNotification($token, $expiration));
    }
}

To customize the resend form, use the following command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Lunaweb\EmailVerification\Providers\EmailVerificationServiceProvider" --tag="views"

Path to the template: resources/views/vendor/emailverification/resend.blade.php

To customize messages and the language used, use the following command:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Lunaweb\EmailVerification\Providers\EmailVerificationServiceProvider" --tag="translations"

Path to the files: resources/lang/

To wrap up

Sending a verification email is the most reliable way to check the validity of an email address. The tutorials above will help you implement this feature in your Laravel app. At the same time, if you need to validate a large number of existing addresses, you do not have to send a test email to each of them. There are plenty of online email validators that will do the job for you. In the most extreme case, you can validate an email address manually with mailbox pinging. For more on this, read How to Verify Email Address Without Sending an Email.

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composer require creagia/laravel-sign-pad

php artisan sign-pad:install

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=sign-pad-assets

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Creagia\LaravelSignPad\Concerns\RequiresSignature;
use Creagia\LaravelSignPad\Contracts\CanBeSigned;

class MyModel extends Model implements CanBeSigned
{
    use RequiresSignature;

}

?>

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Creagia\LaravelSignPad\Concerns\RequiresSignature;
use Creagia\LaravelSignPad\Contracts\CanBeSigned;
use Creagia\LaravelSignPad\Contracts\ShouldGenerateSignatureDocument;
use Creagia\LaravelSignPad\Templates\BladeDocumentTemplate;
use Creagia\LaravelSignPad\Templates\PdfDocumentTemplate;

class MyModel extends Model implements CanBeSigned, ShouldGenerateSignatureDocument
{
    use RequiresSignature;
    
    public function getSignatureDocumentTemplate(): SignatureDocumentTemplate
    {
        return new SignatureDocumentTemplate(
            signaturePage: 1,
            signatureX: 20,
            signatureY: 25,
            outputPdfPrefix: 'document', // optional
            // template: new BladeDocumentTemplate('pdf/my-pdf-blade-template'), // Uncomment for Blade template
            // template: new PdfDocumentTemplate(storage_path('pdf/template.pdf')), // Uncomment for PDF template
        );
    }
}

?>

@if (!$myModel->hasBeenSigned())
    <form action="" method="POST">
        @csrf
        <div style="text-align: center">
            <x-creagia-signature-pad />
        </div>
    </form>
    <script src=""></script>
@endif

echo $myModel->signature->getSignatureImagePath();
echo $myModel->signature->getSignedDocumentPath();

  <x-creagia-signature-pad
      border-color="#eaeaea"
      pad-classes="rounded-xl border-2"
      button-classes="bg-gray-100 px-4 py-2 rounded-xl mt-4"
      clear-name="Clear"
      submit-name="Submit"
  />

cd storage/app
openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365000 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout certificate.crt -out certificate.crt

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public function boot()
{
    Gate::define('update-post', function (User $user, Post $post) {
        return $user->id === $post->user_id;
    });
}

Gate::before(function($user, $ability) {
    if ($user->role_id == 1) {
        return true;
    }
});

Gate::before(function($user, $ability) {
    if ($user->hasPermission('root')) {
        return true;
    }
});

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UPDATE `wallets` SET `amount` = `amount` - 100 WHERE `id` = 1;
UPDATE `wallets` SET `amount` = `amount` + 100 WHERE `id` = 2;

| id | amount |
|----|--------|
| 1  | 1000   |
| 2  | 0      |

public function transfer()
{
    Wallet::where('id', 1)->decrement('amount', 100);
    Wallet::where('id_', 2)->increment('amount', 100);
}

| id | amount |
|----|--------|
| 1  | 900    |
| 2  | 0      |

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;

public function transfer()
{
    DB::transaction(function(){
        Wallet::where('id', 1)->decrement('amount', 100);
        Wallet::where('id_', 2)->increment('amount', 100); // <-- left an error
    });
}

| id | amount |
|----|--------|
| 1  | 1000   |
| 2  | 0      |

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;

public function transfer()
{
    DB::transaction(function(){
        Wallet::where('id', 1)->decrement('amount', 100);
        Wallet::where('id', 2)->increment('amount', 100);
    });
}

| id | amount |
|----|--------|
| 1  | 900    |
| 2  | 100    |

use App\Services\ThirdPartyService;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;

private ThirdPartyService $thirdPartyService;
    
public function __construct(ThirdPartyService $thirdPartyService)
{
    $this->thirdPartyService = $thirdPartyService;
}
    
public function transfer()
{
    DB::transaction(function(){
        Wallet::where('id', 1)->decrement('amount', 100);
        $this->thirdPartyService->withdrawal(50); // <-- returns false
        Wallet::where('id', 2)->increment('amount', 150);
    });
}

use App\Services\ThirdPartyService;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;

private ThirdPartyService $thirdPartyService;
    
public function __construct(ThirdPartyService $thirdPartyService)
{
    $this->thirdPartyService = $thirdPartyService;
}
    
public function transfer()
{
    DB::beginTransaction();
    
    Wallet::where('id', 1)->decrement('amount', 100);
    
    if(!$this->thirdPartyService->withdrawal(50)) {
        DB::rollBack();
        
        return;
    }
    
    Wallet::where('id', 2)->increment('amount', 150);
    
    DB::commit();
}

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Far-left commentators earlier this week tried to cancel Matt Walsh over some comments he made years ago about unwed pregnancies and the historical ages at which women used to begin childbearing.

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With New York Comic Con underway this weekend, Paramount shared a new trailer for the final season of Star Trek: Picard. After the previous teasers mostly played up the nostalgia of the principal cast of The Next Generation returning to the franchise, the new trailer finally offers a look at season three’s story. And judging from the clip, Picard will end with a bang.

The trailer opens with Starfleet facing an entirely new threat in the form of an alien vessel called the Shrike. What follows is a fun series of scenes that sees Admiral Jean-Luc Picard recruit his old friends, some of them a little less than willing, to face a villain played by Pulp Fiction’s Amanda Plummer. There’s something satisfying about seeing how characters like Worf have changed in unexpected ways in their later years. Even more unexpected are the two cameos at the end of the trailer. Daniel Davis is back as holographic Professor Moriarty, while Brent Spiner will play Data’s evil Android twin, Lore.

Alongside a new trailer for Star Trek: Picard, Paramount also shared fresh teasers for season five of Discovery and the midseason return of Prodigy. The latter will debut on October 27th, while the former is expected to arrive sometime next year. The final season of Picard will begin streaming on February 16th, 2023.

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