blue-twilight/app/Helpers/RecaptchaHelper.php

<?php

namespace App\Helpers;

use App\Facade\UserConfig;

class RecaptchaHelper
{
    /**
     * Validates the given reCAPTCHA response against the reCAPTCHA servers to see if the user was validated successfully.
     * @param string $response Response from the g-recaptcha-response POST variable
     * @param string $clientIpAddress Client's IP address
     * @return mixed Returns true or false depending on the reCAPTCHA server's response
     * @throws \Exception Thrown when the reCAPTCHA server could not be reached, or it didn't return a valid JSON response.
     */
    public static function validateResponse($response, $clientIpAddress)
    {
        $ch = curl_init(config('services.recaptcha.verify_url'));
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, array(
            'secret' => UserConfig::get('recaptcha_secret_key'),
            'response' => $response,
            'remoteip' => $clientIpAddress
        ));

        $return = json_decode(curl_exec($ch));

        if (is_null($return))
        {
            $message = 'Error while communicating with the reCAPTCHA service.';
            $curlError = curl_error($ch);

            if (strlen($curlError) > 0)
            {
                $message .= ' ' . $curlError;
            }

            throw new \Exception($message);
        }

        return $return->success;
    }
}