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nrofis
nrofis

Reputation: 9796

Laravel before/after validation message

In Laravel you can make a custom messages for validators. But I found that the prepared messages are little bit wrong. With before and after validation rules, the parameter is converted with strtotime like that said in the documentation.

So if I set rule 'expires' => 'before:+1 year' the rule is working and correct. But if the user inputs a wrong value, Laravel prints the message like that:

The expires must be a date before +1 year

This message is very unclear for the average client. I was expected that the message will be converted with the strtotime also.

There is a clean way to print more clear error message?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1370

Answers (2)

Rama Durai
Rama Durai

Reputation: 750

You can user AppServiceProvider.php
and you can write your new validation rule there and set your error message in validation.php file
/app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php
/resources/lang/en/validation.php

Ex: 

    Validator::extend('before_equal', function ($attribute, $value, $parameters) {
        return strtotime(Input::get($parameters[0])) >= strtotime($value);
    });

and the message is 

    'before_equal' => 'The :attribute field is only accept date format before or equal to end date',

Please try this and you can alter this to based on your require.

Upvotes: 0

Davor Minchorov
Davor Minchorov

Reputation: 2076

You can override the validation messages with a custom ones if you want to.

In the Form Request class, add the following method and change the messages like so:

public function messages()
{
    return [
        // 'fieldname.rulename' => 'Custom message goes here.'
        'email.required' => 'Er, you forgot your email address!',
        'email.unique' => 'Email already taken m8',
    ];
}

Update:

If you want to change the global messages, you can open the validation.php file inside resources/lang/en/validation.php and edit the message there.

Upvotes: 0

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