Level 39
Have you try with conditional validation
https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/validation#conditionally-adding-rules
Feb 15, 2021
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Level 1
Validation only if field is NOT null
I've been trying to work out how to do the following:
I have three fields which must be different from each other only if they contain a value. If they are empty or null then I don't want it checking.
I guess what I'm looking for is something like
differentIfNotNull:field2|differentIfNotNull:field3
or
differentIfNotNull:[field2,field3...etc]
Is there a way to do this? I already tried
"field1" => "nullable|different:field2|different:field3"
But if all fields are null or empty it throws a validation error complaining they are not different, which of course they aren't but I want to validation to be skipped if the field is empty.
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Level 39
Hi @corvs
sometimes is used to test if field exists not if it is null.
Level 1
Thanks @sr57
I've already tried the solution you suggested but it doesn't work.
'field1'=>'exclude_if:field2,null|different:field2'
Still tells me that field1 and field2 cannot both be null. Is it not possible to use null like this?
Level 39
In this example, you should exclude_if field1 ... see my example
Level 39
-1- both solutions should work : nullable or exclude_if:...,null
-2- I should write your code like this :
'f1' => 'nullable',
'f2' => 'nullable|different:f1',
# or 'f2' => 'exclude_if:f2,null|different:f1',
'f3' => 'nullable|different:f1|different:f2',
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