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Easy way to Generate and Validate OTP in the Laravel

In this post I will show how to generate and validate the OTP (One Time Password) using a simple Laravel package. https://github.com/seshac/otp-generator.

So, Let's start and follow below three simple steps.

  1. You can generate OTP using any unique identification (Prefer Mobile number or Email),
  2. Send to end user using any notification provider
  3. Finally, verify using the same unique identification.

Installation and Setup process :

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require seshac/otp-generator
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You can publish and run the migrations with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Seshac\Otp\OtpServiceProvider" --tag="migrations"
php artisan migrate
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You can publish the config file with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Seshac\Otp\OtpServiceProvider" --tag="config"
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Once you published you can configure all otp-generator.php config values based on your requirements.

Usage

use Seshac\Otp\Otp;
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$otp =  Otp::generate($identifier);
.
$verify = Otp::validate($identifier, $otp->token);
// response
{
  "status": true
  "message": "OTP is valid"
}
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You have control to update the setting at otp-generator.php config file, but you control while generating also

Advance Usage

use Seshac\Otp\Otp;
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$otp =  Otp::setValidity(30)  // otp validity time in mins
      ->setLength(4)  // Lenght of the generated otp
      ->setMaximumOtpsAllowed(10) // Number of times allowed to regenerate otps
      ->setOnlyDigits(false)  // generated otp contains mixed characters ex:ad2312
      ->setUseSameToken(true) // if you re-generate OTP, you will get same token
      ->generate($identifier);
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$verify = Otp::setAllowedAttempts(10) // number of times they can allow to attempt with wrong token
    ->validate($identifier, $otp->token);

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Here the GitHub repository https://github.com/seshac/otp-generator

If you find any issues, please, feel to free open an issue here.
https://github.com/seshac/otp-generator/issues

Top comments (7)

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samik-os

Is there a way to forcibly expire tokens after they are verified?

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Sesha

No, Please open a issue on github and we can work on that.

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Edi Septriyanto

Is Laravel 8 supported?

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Sesha

Yes, it's

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Mohammad Fazel

Love it

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Imran Hossain (Rubab)

migration file is not generated

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Sesha

Please create an issue with details, we will fix soon!