Level 73
You can use custom validation rules.
https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/validation#custom-validation-rules
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Aug 23, 2019
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Level 16
Allow multiple validation types in form requests
I will cut it brief, I want to validate the following in a FormRequest:
"dates": ["2019-02-01", ["2019-03-01", "2019-04-01"]]
Basically, allowing single dates and date ranges.
How can I tell the validator I'd like the one or the other, but not both simultaneously?
Currently, I have this for one data type (namely array):
'dates' => 'nullable|array|min:1',
'dates.*' => 'distinct|array|size:2',
'dates.*.0' => 'date_format:Y-m-d',
'dates.*.1' => 'date_format:Y-m-d|after:dates.*.0',
Level 16
Should have mentioned whether this is possible with a combination of the built-in validators. Thanks for the suggestion.
Level 73
You can do some pretty advanced stuff with the built in ones but this is something I don't think is supported out of the box.
Level 67
Agree...accepting a date, or a date range is not a common requirement that can be satisfied by the relatively simplistic built in validation rules.
You can also do it in a closure if this is a one-off kind of thing: https://laravel.com/docs/5.8/validation#using-closures
Level 16
Alright, just wanted to make sure before going down that route. Thanks for the quick replies!
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