Validating Arrays?

Question

I've seen how to validate arrays in the docs. Using something like:

class UsersRequest extends FormRequest
{
    public function rules()
    {
        'users.*.name' => 'required',

    }
}

On my form I have the field named:

<input name="users[0][name]">

This is actually looped out, but have statically added it in above example.

The issue I have is that the above will validate, so if there is no value in the field, it will error, and with a value, it will pass, unfortunately the input does not have an error class on it, as I suspect the name in the error bag is different to the name on the input.

How can I correctly validate / correctly name array inputs in laravel?

Edit.

This is not a duplicate, have tried other answer on SO and they do not work.

If you dump out the $request->input() what are the key names of your input? — user5283119
– user5283119, Commented Aug 21, 2019 at 9:38
"users" => array:1 [▼ 0 => array:2 [▼ "name" => "sdfa" "date" => "sadf" ] ] — panthro
– panthro, Commented Aug 21, 2019 at 9:41
Can you share the code you use to validate, rather than just the rule? — user5283119
– user5283119, Commented Aug 21, 2019 at 9:50

Tajuddin Khandaker · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-21 10:14:15Z

1

I usually do like this. It's very simple:

<input id="users.0.name" name="users[0][name]">

Edit: Correction is it's not required to set an Id attribute until you need them yours is fine:

 <input name="users[0][name]">

edited Aug 21, 2019 at 10:14

answered Aug 21, 2019 at 10:08

Tajuddin Khandaker

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Tajuddin Khandaker Over a year ago

in error bag the name should be like "users.0.name" which is not friendly to view though, you can write custom message at lang specific for them

panthro Over a year ago

that is annoying as my inputs check errors based on their name

Tajuddin Khandaker Over a year ago

@panthro I have written custom messages to view friendly messages. But it's obvious by design they will call through those pattern name until you override that pattern

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