A PHP Mobile Authentication API with Phone Verification using Twilio Authy, developed with Laravel 5.4 framework and JWT (JSON Web Tokens) Package.
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E-mail Verification and Phone Verification using Twilio Authy
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Email Verification Only
Phone Verification only
The steps below are a compilation of a series of tutorials.
Create Laravel project
laravel new JWTAuthentication
Open composer.json and update the require object to include jwt-auth
"require": {
"php": ">=5.6.4",
"laravel/framework": "5.4.*",
"laravel/tinker": "~1.0",
"tymon/jwt-auth": "0.5.*"
}
Then, run
composer update
We’ll now need to update the providers array in config/app.php with the jwt-auth provider. Open up config/app.php, find the providers array located on line 138 and add this to it:
Tymon\JWTAuth\Providers\JWTAuthServiceProvider::class,
Add in the jwt-auth facades which we can do in config/app.php. Find the aliases array and add these facades to it:
'JWTAuth' => Tymon\JWTAuth\Facades\JWTAuth::class,
'JWTFactory' => Tymon\JWTAuth\Facades\JWTFactory::class
We also need to publish the assets for this package. From the command line:
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Tymon\JWTAuth\Providers\JWTAuthServiceProvider"
After you run this command you will see a new file in the config folder called jwt.php. This file contains settings for jwt-auth, one of which we need to change right away. We need to generate a secret key which we can do from the command line:
php artisan jwt:generate
You’ll see that after running this command we get a new value next to’secret’ where “changeme” was before.
Register the jwt.auth and jwt.refresh middleware in app/http/Kernel.php
protected $routeMiddleware = [
...
'jwt.auth' => 'Tymon\JWTAuth\Middleware\GetUserFromToken',
'jwt.refresh' => 'Tymon\JWTAuth\Middleware\RefreshToken',
];
The full tutorial for e-mail verification is available on my blog.