EnsureEmailIsVerified Middleware Bug?

[iAdil]

The middleware called "EnsureEmailIsVerified" verifies if the user model is an instance of "MustVerifyEmail". However, it won't function properly for the "Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User" class because it uses a trait.

Is it a bug?

[ahmett]

I see nothing is wrong with the core logic. Your confusion is probably about naming. EnsureEmailIsVerified middleware checks whether your user model is an instance of Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail

If you want your users required to verify their emails, you have to implement the Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail interface in your user class (which is App\Models\User by default).

For a better understanding of the structure:

Application's user model App\Models\User extends Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User and implements Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail

Example user model:

<?php
 
namespace App\Models;
 
use Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
 
class User extends Authenticatable implements MustVerifyEmail
{
    // ...
}

Under the hood, Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User uses the Illuminate\Auth\MustVerifyEmail trait to fulfill the requirements of Illuminate\Contracts\Auth\MustVerifyEmail

<?php

namespace Illuminate\Foundation\Auth;

use Illuminate\Auth\MustVerifyEmail;

class User
{
    use MustVerifyEmail;
}

Note: I deleted the unnecessary details in the core code above to make everything more precise with context.

You can also check: https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/verification#model-preparation