Lumen Google reCAPTCHA validation - api

Question

I already seen some tuts and example about it and I have implemented it somehow.
Method in controller looks like this:
The logic used is just php and I would like to use more a lumen/laravel logic and not just simple vanilla php. Also I have tried and did not worked anhskohbo / no-captcha
public function create(Request $request)
{
try {
$this->validate($request, [
'reference' => 'required|string',
'first_name' => 'required|string|max:50',
'last_name' => 'required|string|max:50',
'birthdate' => 'required|before:today',
'gender' => 'required|string',
'email' => 'required|email|unique:candidates',
'g-recaptcha-response' => 'required',
]);
//Google recaptcha validation
if ($request->has('g-recaptcha-response')) {
$secretAPIkey = env("RECAPTCHA_KEY");
// reCAPTCHA response verification
$verifyResponse = file_get_contents('https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/siteverify?secret='.$secretAPIkey.'&response='.$request->input('captcha-response'));
$response = json_decode($verifyResponse);
if ($response->success) {
//Form submission
//Saving data from request in candidates
$candidate = Candidate::create($request->except('cv_path'));
$response = array(
"status" => "alert-success",
"message" => "Your mail have been sent."
);
} else {
$response = array(
"status" => "alert-danger",
"message" => "Robot verification failed, please try again."
);
}
}
} catch(Exception $e) {
return response()->json($e->getMessage());
}
return response()->json(['id' => $candidate->id, $response]);
}

Answer 1

Okey. Google has an package for this:reCAPTCHA PHP client library
just: composer require google/recaptcha "^1.2"
and in your method inside controller:
$recaptcha = new \ReCaptcha\ReCaptcha(config('app.captcha.secret_key'));
$response = $recaptcha->verify($request->input('g-recaptcha-response'), $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
if ($response->isSuccess()) {
//Your logic goes here
} else {
$errors = $response->getErrorCodes();
}
config('app.captcha.site_key') means that I got the key from from config/app.php and there from .env file.
If you have not config folder, you should create it, also create app.php file same as in laravel.