Laravel validator for nested array

Question

Am using the Laravel Validator class to do some basic validation on an array.

My array :

$employee['name']='name';
$employee['address']='address';
$employee['department']['name']='deptname';
$employee['department']['address']='deptaddress';

I have the validation rules as below:

$rules = array(
    'name'=> 'required',
    'address' => 'required'
)

And the custom messages as below :

$messages = array(
     'name.required' => 'Employee Name is required',
     'address.required' => 'Address is required'
)

I will use Validator::make($employee, $rules, $messages);

How do I write the rule and messages for $employee[department]['name'] and $employee[department]['address'] using same rules and messages variables?

Jarek Tkaczyk · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-05 20:58:07Z

8

Use dot notation for nested array:

department.name
department.address

answered Apr 5, 2014 at 20:58

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6 Comments

Kevin Joymungol Over a year ago

May be you can surely help me with this stackoverflow.com/questions/22892058/…. 'sometimes' validator is not working with nested arrays.

Jarek Tkaczyk Over a year ago

Well, currently it's impossible to do, but I'm gonna make a pull request to fix this issue. Only then will you be able to make it work.

user269867 Over a year ago

@JarekTkaczyk any idea how to do it in Laravel 4?

Jarek Tkaczyk Over a year ago

Given the answer was given in April 2014 it should work in L4 ;)

Kapil Verma Over a year ago

What if we are having arrays in department. like department[0]['name']; department[0]['address']; department[1]['name']; department[1]['address'];

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