Laravel unique validation

To ignore soft deleted records during unique validation in Laravel, you can use the ignore validation rule. Here's an example of how you can modify your existing validation rule:

use Illuminate\Validation\Rule;

public function rules()
{
    $id = $this->route('id'); // assuming you're using route model binding

    return [
        'email' => [
            'required',
            'email',
            Rule::unique('users')->ignore($id)->whereNull('deleted_at')
        ]
    ];
}

In this example, we're using the ignore rule to exclude the record with the given $id from the unique check. Additionally, we're using the whereNull method to only consider records where the deleted_at column is null (i.e. not soft deleted).

Note that you'll need to adjust the table name and column name in the unique rule to match your specific use case.