How to add an exception to unique laravel rule validation

Hi guys, I have a validation that goes like this

My user can create many categories for his/her product and my categories table looks like this

id user_id name created_at updated_at

CategoryController.php

// Creates category

public function create() { $data = request()->validate([ 'name' => 'required|unique for that user_id ]); }

What I want to happen is it checks if there's an existing category_name under that user_id

Can you help me please? Thanks in advance!

Level 104

'name' => Rule::unique('categories')->where(function ($query) use ($request) {
	return $query->where('user_id', $request->user()->id);
})

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Thanks for the reply! <3

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