I have a question about Laravel 4 and Validation concept.
I have my mysql table and my model Calass.. We can suppose that we have a field nullable...
If this field is not null how can I validate it? (for example I would an integer value < of my maxvalue)
Unless you add the 'required' rule, validation will always treat fields as optional. Thus, a rule like numeric|max:9000 will be valid if the field is null or empty string, but if it is provided it has to be a number that is smaller than 9000.
To prevent null or empty string from being saved into the database (MySQL will convert this to 0 for an integer field), you can set up a mutator for the attribute. In your model:
public function setNumberAttribute($value)
{
if ($value !== null && is_numeric($value)) {
$this->attributes['number'] = (int) $value;
}
}
you can create your validation into your model
Ex:
class User extends Eloquent {
protected $table = 'users';
public $timestamps = false;
public static function validate($input) {
$rules = array(
# place-holder for validation rules
);
# validation code
}
}
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