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Laravel 5 Package to help validate and verify your email addresses.

Note: This depends on the paid service from http://quickemailverification.com/.

Install

PHP 5.5+ or HHVM 3.3+, and Composer are required.

Via Composer

$ composer require unicodeveloper/laravel-email-validator

Another alternative is to simply add the following line to the require block of your composer.json file.

"unicodeveloper/laravel-email-validator": "1.0.*"

Then run composer install or composer update to download it and have the autoloader updated.

Add this to your providers array in config/app.php

// Laravel 5: config/app.php

'providers' => [
    ...
    Unicodeveloper\EmailValidator\EmailValidatorServiceProvider::class,
    ...
];

This package also comes with a facade

// Laravel 5: config/app.php

'aliases' => [
    ...
    'EmailValidator' => Unicodeveloper\EmailValidator\EmailValidatorFacade::class,
    ...
]

Publish the config file by running:

php artisan vendor:publish

The config file will now be located at config/emailValidator.php.

Configuration

This is the emailValidator.php file in the config directory. Go to quickemailverification.com, sign up, get an api Key and insert here

/**
 *  Config file that a user/developer can insert quickemailverficationservice api key
 */
return [
    'apiKey' => ''
];

Usage

With the Facades, all you need to do in your application is something like so:

 print_r(EmailValidator::verify('kkkkk@example.com')->isValid());
 // returns Array ( [0] => [1] => Could not get MX records for domain )
 
 print_r(EmailValidator::verify('prosperotemuyiwa@gmail.com')->isValid());
 // returns Array ( [0] => 1 [1] => SMTP server accepted email address )

 var_dump( EmailValidator::verify('prosperotemuyiwa@gmail.com')->isValid()[0]); 
 // returns bool(true)
 
 var_dump( EmailValidator::verify('kkkkk@example.com')->isValid()[0]); 
 // returns bool(false)
 
 
 if( EmailValidator::verify('kkkkk@example.com')->isValid()[0] ){
   ......
 }

 // returns a true/false if the email address is valid or not

Other Methods Available

/**
 * Returns true or false if the email address uses a disposable domain
 * @return boolean
 */
EmailValidator::verify('kkkkk@example.com')->isDisposable()

/**
 * Returns true or false if the API request was successful
 * @return boolean
 */
EmailValidator::verify('kkkkk@example.com')->apiRequestStatus()

/**
 * Get the domain of the provided email address
 * @return string
 */
EmailValidator::verify('kkkkk@example.com')->getDomainName()

/**
 * Get the local part of an email address
 * Example: kkkkk@example.com returns kkkkk
 * @return string
 */
EmailValidator::verify('kkkkk@example.com')->getUser()

/**
 * Gets a normalized version of the email address
 * Example: KkkKk@example.com returns kkkkk@gmail.com
 * @return string
 */
EmailValidator::verify('kkkkk@example.com')->getEmailAddress()

/**
 * Returns true if the domain appears to accept all emails delivered to that domain
 * @return boolean
 */
EmailValidator::verify('kkkkk@example.com')->acceptEmailsDeliveredToDomain()

/**
 * Returns true or false if email address is a role address
 * Example manager@example.com , ceo@example.com will return true
 * @return boolean
 */
EmailValidator::verify('kkkkk@example.com')->isRole()

Change log

Please see CHANGELOG for more information what has changed recently.

Todo: Testing

Todo: Verify a list of emails

You can run the tests with:

vendor/bin/phpunit run

Alternatively, you can run the tests like so:

composer test

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

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Thanks! Prosper Otemuyiwa.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.