Laravel Validation

Hi @erron

As suggested before, you could create a Trait with that code inside. You could even call that Trait HasApproval or something like that.

As that Trait will be assigned to a Model, you won't need to fetch it from DB as it will be already done, so you would end up with something like:

<?php

namespace App\Traits;

trait HasApproval
{
    public function approve()
    {
        if($this->cancelled_at != null) {
		abort(422);
	}

	if($this->submitted_at == null) {
		abort(422);
	}

	if($this->approved_at != null) {
		abort(422);
	}

	$this->approved_at = now();
	$this->save();
    }
}

then at the Models where you want to apply this, you would just do:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use App\Traits\HasApproval;

class SomeModel extends Model
{
     use HasApproval;

     // your model code here....
}

So now you can call the approve() method on that Model and it will validate and save or abort with 422 code.

Hope this works for you!