PHP Tutorial Laravel 4 Framework (Authentication) - Activating User Account II - Update user's status

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This tutorial is the continuation from Activating user account I - Mail::send().

Now that the user can receive an account activation email, we want to process the email reply from the user so that the user can login.

Retrieving user information using hash code

In this section, we'll get information about the user whose database hash code is the same as the code in the reply email for the activation.

AccountController.php file:

<?php

class AccountController extends BaseController {

	/* Viewing the form */
	public function getCreate() {
		return View::make('account.create');
	}

	/* Submitting the form */
	public function postCreate() {
		$validator = Validator::make(Input::all(),
			array(
				'email' 		=> 'required|max:50|email|unique:users',
				'username'		=> 'required|max:20|min:3|unique:users',
				'password'		=> 'required|min:6',
				'password_again'=> 'required|same:password'
			)
		);

		if($validator->fails()) {
			return Redirect::route('account-create')
				->withErrors($validator)
				->withInput();   // fills the field with the old inputs what were correct

		} else {
			// create an account
			$email 		= Input::get('email');
			$username 	= Input::get('username');
			$password 	= Input::get('password');

			// Activation code
			$code	= str_random(60);

			/* This does the same as User::create() 
			$user = new User;
			$user->fill(array(
				'email' 	=> $email,
				'username' 	=> $username,
				'password' 	=> Hash::make($password),
				'code'		=> $code,
				'active'	=> 0,		
			));
			$userdata = $user->save();
			*/

			// record				
			$userdata = User::create(array(
				'email' 	=> $email,
				'username' 	=> $username,
				'password' 	=> Hash::make($password),
				'code'		=> $code,
				'active'	=> 0
			));

			
			if($userdata) {		
				 	
				Mail::send('emails.auth.activate', 
					array('link' => URL::route('account-activate', $code), 'username' => $username), function($message) use ($userdata) {
					$message->to($userdata->email, $userdata->username)->subject('Activate your account');
				});	

				return Redirect::route('home')
					->with('global', 'Your account has been created. We have sent you an email to activate your accout');				
			}	
		}
	}

	public function getActivate($code) {
		 
		$user = User::where('code', '=', $code)->where('active', '=', 0);

		/* if user is available */
		if($user->count()) {
			$user = $user->first();

			// Update the user status to active
			$user->active = 1;
			$user->code = '';
			if($user->save()) {
				return Redirect::route('home')
						->with('global', 'Activated! You can now sign in!');
			}
		}

		/* fall back */
		return Redirect::route('home')
			->with('global', 'We could not activate your account. Try again later.');
	}
}

When the user click the link, and if it's not successful (hash code not matching, for example, like this uri, http://localhost/account/activate/abc ):