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Tharindu Thisarasinghe
Tharindu Thisarasinghe

Reputation: 3998

Use Laravel validations when html input names vary from column name

I cannot get passed required validation in my Laravel app.

This is the validation rule I have...

$rules = [
   'email' => 'required|unique:members|max:100',
];

The specific column name is email. The HTML page input field name is emailAddress

What to do in these situations ? How to tell this validation which request field to check ?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2887

Answers (3)

Tharindu Thisarasinghe
Tharindu Thisarasinghe

Reputation: 3998

Found the problem...

It's the input field names that validation checks. Not column names.

The problem here is the unique validation rule of the email field. I had to speficify which column to check for already stored emails.

Like this

unique:members,email

I had to use the column name after the table name separated by a , (comma).

So, the rule will be like

$rules = [
    'emailAddress' => 'required|unique:members,email|max:100',
];

That's it!

Upvotes: 6

Alexey Mezenin
Alexey Mezenin

Reputation: 163798

You can change the name attribute to email.

Or you can use validation rules like this:

'emailAddress' => 'required|unique:members|max:100',

And then in controller method do this:

Model::create([
    'email' => $request->emailAddress,
]);

Upvotes: 1

N Mahurin
N Mahurin

Reputation: 1446

You don't check against column names in validation, just use the input name. 

$rules = [
   'emailAddress' => 'required|unique:members|max:100',
];

I guess to be more clear: the Request instance is what is checked. Validation doesn't interact with the database, it interacts with the Request

Upvotes: 1

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