Validation 'same' rule not working like I think it should.

same rule is for comparing the field value with the other field value

e.g.

[
    'one' => 'required',
    'two' => 'same:one'
]

@bunnypro ah...I was totally misinterpreting what it was supposed to do...thought it just compared a passed value to the field value.

@roerjo I think you’re looking for the exists rule instead.

If you have data coming in from a form, then you can just do this:

$this->validate($request, [
    'machine_code' => Rule::exists('codes'),
]);

You can also “chain” additional clauses: https://laravel.com/docs/master/validation#rule-exists

@martinean yeah I originally tried that, but was having issues with the chaining of additional clauses. Seems that you can only chain certain clauses:

https://laravel.com/api/5.4/Illuminate/Validation/Rules/Exists.html

I couldn't get that to work...but I did find a another solution in the past couple minutes:

Probably a misuse of the 'in' rule but it seems to work fine...an array of one value.