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Why do you need to validate them together? Can't you work out if they're valid on their own?
What rules are you using?
Apr 12, 2018
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Level 1
Custom validation on combined fields
So, I read the documentation and reviewed some web sites regarding custom validation and I got it to work for me (mods to AppServiceProvider etc) when I call the validation from my simple test. The problem is this:
In real life have two fields on screen, countrycode and phonenumber and I need to validate them as a single unit i.e. "+".$countrycode.$phonenumber with a call to Twilio.
What is the correct way to achieve the desired result? Code before or after Spark::validateUsersWith ? or can I pass more than one field to a custom validation? I couldn't find any relevant documentation on parameter passing in a custom validation.
BTW, very, VERY new to Laravel and Spark so don't jump too hard.
Thanks in advance
David
Level 1
@bashy Why do I need to validate them together? Because one can't validate them successfully separately. While some people might be happy to just check the number of digits and so forth, I want to use the validation routine provided by the Twilio API which tells me all sorts of things about the number that has been entered - such as whether it's a real phone number, including carrier.
Level 65
Ah I missed the "with a call to Twilio". Sounds like Spark is quite different to default Laravel so not having used it, I can't really say.
You can normally access formdata in FormRequests via $this->input('field_name') but you're not using one, or it doesn't.
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