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Kristo
Kristo

Reputation: 557

Laravel 5 validation: Unique-rule to check for emails with exceptions

For testing and support issues I´d like to allow one or two emails to be used multiple times in my users database. All other emails should be unique. For example:

"email" => "required|email|unique:users,email,[email protected]"

This isn´t working and I can´t use the id field for the exception because there will be multiple entries with the same email.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1245

Answers (2)

lukasgeiter
lukasgeiter

Reputation: 152890

Sounds like a case for sometimes

$whitelist = ['[email protected]', '[email protected]', '[email protected]'];
$validator->sometimes('email', 'unique:users', function($input) use ($whitelist){
    return ! in_array($input->email, $whitelist);
});

Meaning if the email is not in the whitelist, the unique rule applies.

Inside a form request you can add stuff to the validator instance by overriding getValidatorInstance():

protected getValidatorInstance(){
    $validator = parent::getValidatorInstance();
    $validator->sometimes(...);
    return $validator;
}

Upvotes: 3

Margus Pala
Margus Pala

Reputation: 8663

Try below where XX is your test user id.

"email" => "required|email|unique:users,email,XX,id"

PS You can also set it dynamically during runtime if you want to

Upvotes: 0

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