Statamic costs $259, one time.Īfter that it's just an optional $59/year whenever you want updates and access to direct support from the team who built it. Not to mention having to keep track of updates, billing, and customer support with a half dozen (or more) different companies. Add Advanced Custom Fields for $49/year, a backup solution for $200/year, a forms module for $349/year, a search plugin for $149/yr, and premium "managed" WordPress hosting, and before you know it you've committed to over $1,000/year just to keep the site online. You'll need to buy Jetpack for $99/year because after all, it's "essential". With WordPress you'll probably need to buy a premium theme and hire a developer to customize it, who might tell you last minute that what you're trying to do isn't possible with the "page builder" you're using and you'll need to switch to another theme and start over. We'll explain how Statamic saves you money, keeps you safer, and makes changes faster than any other CMS. If you’re looking to just plop a generic theme on the internet and replace placeholder text with your company name and phone number, then maybe you should just use WordPress.īut if you're looking to build and maintain a website that can adapt the way your business adapts, keep reading. Protected static $freeEmailDomain = array('', '', 'hotmail.When it seems like everyone else is using WordPress, why use anything else? Looking a bit more into it, I found out that it only generates an email from 3 safe domains: Reading up a bit on the faker docs I discovered that it also provides a $faker->freeEmail function. This took me a while to find but it made me realize that I cannot rely on $faker->email for my unit tests. Most of the time, faker will spit out an email like but it can also give you one like The second one will fail DNS validation because the domain does not exist.
$faker->email gives you a valid DNS email but only sometimes That should give a valid email right? Right. I was using $faker->email in all of my factories and tests. I happily swapped all of my email validators to use this new approach thinking "easy, problem solved". The DNS one is open source and can be found here. That way you apply both the RFC and DNS validators to your address. I was happy to discover that Laravel offers a DNS validator and all you need to do is change your email validation from This would take care of both the and the cases as they'd both fail the check. I read up and found that a good solution is to verify the DNS records of the email address provided by the user.
Tool to verify email addresses in php laravel verification#
Yes, I know that for user registrations you can send people a verification email, but I've got a lot of functionality where people leave their email without actually needing to be registered into the system. I wanted to verify that the address was real. The most common one I see is something like my product, Thankbox, I was tired of dealing with these cases and wanted to increase my confidence in the emails that users were supplying.
Of course, for almost all use cases, we'd expect that our users would have their emails hosted on some external domain.Įven if you checked for the presence of a domain, this still leaves your users open to misspelling them. For example, this is a valid email according to the spec: Yep, you don't even need a domain (though it was pointed to me that internal company domains could very well have that structure). Sadly, the RFC spec is quite loose in what it defines as an email. This just validates that the string is a valid email address. 'email' => 'required|email|unique:users|max:255'Īccording to the Laravel docs, the default email validator checks a string against the RFC spec. What validation do you run on emails that users enter in your Laravel application? For example, for validating a user registration, you might not have strayed too much from the default:
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