Laravel custom validation attribute names with wildcards

Question

When customising Laravel 5.7 validation attributes, is it possible to include wildcards in the attribute names? I can't determine the correct way to indicate a wildcard here.

I have a contacts page which lists the details of a particular contact including all of their phone numbers and emails. From this page you can edit each of these, and add new ones. As such I've used a foreach statement to display each of these and included their id numbers in the form field names, ie:

phone_areacode_{{ $number->id }}
phone_number_{{ $number->id }}
phone_extension_{{ $number->id }}

This makes their names unique and means I can display the error messages relevant only to the specific number or email being edited when validation fails. However, the error messages that display include the number so I get things like "The phone areacode 10 format is invalid." or "The phone number 27 may not be greater than 20 characters."

Is there a way to use wildcards in the attribute names when defining them in the validation language file? Basically I'd like to be able to do this:

'attributes' => [
  'phone_areacode_*.*' => 'phone areacode',
],

If not, how can I define the attribute names in the @update method of my controller?

Any solution yet?

mleister
– mleister

2020-03-14 18:27:07 +00:00
Commented Mar 14, 2020 at 18:27 — mleister
– mleister, Commented Mar 14, 2020 at 18:27

Matt Rabe · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-05 20:27:20Z

Post values using arrays/objects, and specify validation rules/lang using dot notation:

Example POST data:

{
  "phone": {
    "ID1234": {
      "areacode": "123",
      "number": "1231234",
      "extension": "1"
    }
  }
}

Example HTML form (equivalent to POST data above):

<form action="?" method="post">
  <input name="phone[ID1234][areacode]" />
  <input name="phone[ID1234][number]" />
  <input name="phone[ID1234][extension]" />

  <input type="submit">Submit</input>
</form>

Example validation:

$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
  'phone.*.areacode': 'required',
  'phone.*.number': 'required',
  'phone.*.extension': 'required',
]);

Example lang file:

return [
  'attributes' => [
    'phone.*.areacode': 'phone area code',
    'phone.*.number': 'phone number',
    'phone.*.extension': 'phone extension',
  ],
]);

layouteam · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-09 03:13:30Z

-1

do you try this way it's from Laravel documentation

'custom' => [
        'attribute-name' => [
            'rule-name' => 'custom-message',
        ],
    ],

answered Jan 9, 2019 at 3:13

layouteam

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James V Over a year ago

That won't work either; its the same problem I'm already having. Where it reads 'attribute-name', I need THAT to contain the wildcard (eg. 'attribute-name_%')

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