Laravel custom field name in form request validation

Question

I have a form fields in the view as:-

<input type="email" name="user[email]">
<input type="text" name="name">
<input type="text" name="designation">

While submitting this post request, I have a rule defined as:-

app\Http\Requests\StaffEditRequest.php

$rule['user.email'] = 'email|unique:users';

However, when Laravel tries to validate the request it queries the database as if there is a field name user.email in the users table.

How do I customize the field name so that I can tell Laravel that I am looking for email field in the users table and not user.email?

Sovon · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-21 07:35:59Z

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You need to define the column in in unique parameter. Do like following:

$rule['user.email'] = 'email|unique:users,email';

answered Aug 21, 2016 at 7:35

Sovon

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