Laravel Array Validation Message Value

Question

For array validation messages, is there a way to display the value as opposed to the attribute? Doing so without using a custom validator.

Example:

$messages = [
   ‘*' => ':value is invalid.’
]

This would output something like "email@address is invalid".

Thanks for your help!

Possible duplicate of Get access to value that failed validation, in a replacer? — tremby
– tremby, Commented Mar 14, 2016 at 18:23
If nothing else is available I may have to go down the custom validator route. Was hoping there was something simple like :value that could be used in the messages. — bmclachlin
– bmclachlin, Commented Mar 14, 2016 at 19:18

orim181 · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-20 16:54:46Z

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In case anyone is still looking with the latest of Laravel versions, the answer is to use the :input parameter in your message output:

'between' => 'The :attribute value :input is not between :min - :max.'

Docs: https://laravel.com/docs/5.7/validation#custom-error-messages

answered Feb 20, 2019 at 16:54

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Christian Noel Over a year ago

also works with Laravel 9.x Validator::extend($name, $anonymousCallable, ':input is missing');. I wonder why it was not included in their documentation.

bmclachlin · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-15 13:46:50Z

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To access the index for the array validation I simply iterate over the elements I'm trying to validate instead of using the * wildcard.

public function messages()
{
    $messages = [];
    foreach($this->emails as $key => $email) {
        $messages[$key] = $email . ' is an invalid email address.';
    }

    return $messages;
}

Hope this helps anyone who is having the same problem.

answered Mar 15, 2016 at 13:46

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elanclarkson Over a year ago

Thanks, this will work while I am stuck in an old version of Laravel. It looks like a PR has since been merged for this in L9: github.com/laravel/framework/pull/41123

avip · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-14 17:42:19Z

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For fully custom strings you can pass custom messages as the third argument to the Validator::make() method. If you need only generic descriptors you can use some built place-holders such as :attribute, :size, or :values

For example:

$messages = ['required' => 'The :attribute field is required.'];

$validator = Validator::make($input, $rules, $messages);

:attribute will be replaced by the actual name of the field under validation.

More info can be found here.

answered Mar 14, 2016 at 17:42

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bmclachlin Over a year ago

Thanks for your reply. Ya I saw that this could be done, but I was wondering if there was a :value instead o :attribute. Attribute is the key where Im looking for the value.

avip Over a year ago

Looking at the docs, I don't see a place-holder defined for the value but I think that's because it's available within the class where $messages would normally be defined. For instance: ['required' => 'The value ' . $this->email . ' cannot be empty.'];

bmclachlin Over a year ago

I'm doing array validation, so I can access the array by using $this->emails, but I don't know which index is failing. How do you get the right value into the message. $messages = [‘*' => $this->emails[$indexHere] . 'is invalid.’]

bmclachlin Over a year ago

figured out a way around it and posted an answer.

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