Is it possible to do conditional validation in Laravel?

Hello everyone. I have a form with fields for employee name and job title. When validating, if there's no employee name, there shouldn't be a job title. I understand that, in theory, I could create a condition for the received data to be empty, and also create client-side dependencies for whether fields are required. But is there a way to handle conditional validation using validate()? So, if the "Job Title" field is filled in, then check the "Employee Name" field for validation as well.

Glukinho

6 months ago

Level 31

required_with? https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/validation#rule-required-with

$rules => [
	'job_title'     => 'string|max:50',
	'employee_name' => 'required_with:job_title|string|max:30',
];

In fact, you can apply any complex logic you want: https://laravel.com/docs/12.x/validation#complex-conditional-validation

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