Use Word Captcha Code and Validation in Laravel

May 10, 2022
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Hello Artisans, today I'll show how we can integrate captcha code and validation in our Laravel Application. For that, we will use captcha-com/laravel-captcha. Let's see how we can use it in our application.

Note: Tested on Laravel 9.2.

Install and setup captcha-com/laravel-captcha
Create and Setup Controller
Define Routes
Create and Setup blade File
Output

Install and setup captcha-com/laravel-captcha

Fire the below command in terminal to install laravel captcha package.

composer require mews/captcha

Now we'll register service provider and alias in config/app.php.

config/app.php

'providers' => [
	....
	Mews\Captcha\CaptchaServiceProvider::class
],

'aliases' => [
	....
	'Captcha' => Mews\Captcha\Facades\Captcha::class
],

Create and Setup Controller

Now we'll create a controller where we'll write our logic to show the validation messages and for refresh the captcha code. So, fire the below command in the terminal

php artisan make:controller HomeController

Now put the below code in your HomeController.

app/Http/Controllers/HomeController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class HomeController extends Controller
{
    public function myCaptcha()
    {
        return view('captcha');
    }

    public function myCaptchaPost(Request $request)
    {
        $request->validate([
            'email' => 'required|email',
            'password' => 'required',
            'captcha' => 'required|captcha'
        ],
            ['captcha.captcha' => 'Invalid captcha code.']);
        dd("You are here :) .");
    }

    public function refreshCaptcha(): \Illuminate\Http\JsonResponse
    {
        return response()->json(['captcha'=> captcha_img()]);
    }

}

Define Routes

Now we will define routes for refresh our captcha code and post a request form. Put these below routes in your web.php.

routes/web.php

Route::get('my-captcha', [\App\Http\Controllers\HomeController::class,'myCaptcha'])->name('myCaptcha');
Route::post('my-captcha', [\App\Http\Controllers\HomeController::class,'myCaptchaPost'])->name('myCaptcha.post');
Route::get('refresh_captcha', [\App\Http\Controllers\HomeController::class,'refreshCaptcha'])->name('refresh_captcha');

Create and Setup blade File

Now first we'll create a blade file called captcha.blade.php where we'll put our form and show the validation messages. So, create a file under the resources/views/captcha.blade.php and put the below codes.

resources/views/captcha.blade.php

<html lang="en">
<head>
    <title>How to create captcha code in Laravel 9?</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css">
    <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet"
          integrity="sha384-wvfXpqpZZVQGK6TAh5PVlGOfQNHSoD2xbE+QkPxCAFlNEevoEH3Sl0sibVcOQVnN" crossorigin="anonymous">
    <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="container" style="margin-top: 50px">
    <div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-2">
        <div class="panel panel-default">
            <div class="panel-heading">Login</div>
            <div class="panel-body">
                <form class="form-horizontal" method="POST" action="{{ route('myCaptcha.post') }}">@csrf
                    <div class="form-group{{ $errors->has('email') ? ' has-error' : '' }}">
                        <label for="email" class="col-md-4 control-label">E-Mail Address</label>
                        <div class="col-md-6">
                            <input id="email" type="text" class="form-control" name="email" value="{{ old('email') }}">
                            @if ($errors->has('email'))
                                <span class="help-block">
                                  <strong>{{ $errors->first('email') }}</strong>
                              </span>
                            @endif
                        </div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="form-group{{ $errors->has('password') ? ' has-error' : '' }}">
                        <label for="password" class="col-md-4 control-label">Password</label>
                        <div class="col-md-6">
                            <input id="password" type="password" class="form-control" name="password">
                            @if ($errors->has('password'))
                                <span class="help-block">
                                  <strong>{{ $errors->first('password') }}</strong>
                              </span>
                            @endif
                        </div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="form-group{{ $errors->has('captcha') ? ' has-error' : '' }}">
                        <label for="password" class="col-md-4 control-label">Captcha</label>
                        <div class="col-md-6">
                            <div class="captcha">
                                <span>{!! captcha_img() !!}</span>
                                <button type="button" class="btn btn-success btn-refresh"><i class="fa fa-refresh"></i>
                                </button>
                            </div>
                            <input id="captcha" type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Enter Captcha"
                                   name="captcha">
                            @if ($errors->has('captcha'))
                                <span class="help-block">
                                  <strong>{{ $errors->first('captcha') }}</strong>
                              </span>
                            @endif
                        </div>
                    </div>
                    <div class="form-group">
                        <div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-4">
                            <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">
                                Submit
                            </button>
                        </div>
                    </div>
                </form>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
</body>
<script type="text/javascript">
    $(".btn-refresh").click(function () {
        $.ajax({
            type: 'GET',
            url: '/refresh_captcha',
            success: function (data) {
                $(".captcha span").html(data.captcha);
            }
        });
    });
</script>
</html>

Output

Now we ready with our setup. It's time to check our output. If everything goes well you'll find a below output

That's it for today. Hope you'll enjoy this tutorial. You can also download this tutorial from GitHub. Thanks for reading. 🙂

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