laravel validate multidimensional array

Question

I have a page which have a select with name="action_id[]", the user can add another action by clicking on a button. The new action is another select with name="action_id[]" so I end up with a view that has many selects with the same name.

when the user submits the form, I do this in the controller:

$actions = Input::get('action_id')

and I get an array.

How to validate these values? They have the same name, so I can not do this because it validates only one action_id:

$validation = Validator::make($actions, Actions::rules)

where Actions::rules is

public static $rules = array(
    'action_id' => 'required|integer|not_in:0'
);

How can I validate the array of actions?

Félix Adriyel Gagnon-Grenier · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-28 19:09:44Z

2

you could do it with a foreach():

foreach ($actions as $singleAction) {
    $validation = Validator::make($singleAction, Actions::rules);
    // do whatever foo with $validation
}

this assumes that your $actions is the array returned by the form. It should look like this:

array(
    0 => 'action1',
    1 => 'action2',
  // etc
);

edited Apr 28, 2015 at 19:09

answered Jul 22, 2014 at 17:28

Félix Adriyel Gagnon-Grenier

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Anastasie Laurent Over a year ago

I got this exception Argument 1 passed to Illuminate\Validation\Factory::make() must be of the type array, string given

Anastasie Laurent Over a year ago

+1 it works now, I will accept when the system allows

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