Custom attribute name in controller validation

Question

Laravel 5 has the option to deal with validation in the controller and provide a custom message to a validation rule for a specific field, such as:

$this->validate($request,
    ['title' => 'required'],
    ['title.required' => 'The Title field is required.' ]
]);

However, since I can comfortably deal with custom names to validation rules from the lang/en/validation.php file, I was wondering if is there a way to specify a custom name for the attribute from the validation in controller, such as:

$this->validate($request,
    ['title' => 'required'],
    ['title' => 'Title' ]
]);

This example of course will not work.

No, You can completely provide a different message.

The Alpha
– The Alpha

2015-07-04 00:36:46 +00:00
Commented Jul 4, 2015 at 0:36 — The Alpha
– The Alpha, Commented Jul 4, 2015 at 0:36

patricus · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-04 06:44:40Z

1

If you're on Laravel 5.0, you won't be able to do this. However, if you've moved to Laravel 5.1, you're in luck. 5.1 added the custom attributes as the fourth parameter.

So, if you're on 5.1, you can do this:

$this->validate(
    $request,
    ['title' => 'required'],
    [],
    ['title' => 'Title' ]
]);

answered Jul 4, 2015 at 6:44

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user2094178 Over a year ago

I've tried this only in 5.0, thank you for pointing this out.

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