Best Practice for Laravel Validation [closed]

Question

I Create New form request and use this for all CRUD operations

and use $this->getMethod(); to check the different between requests

then I face logical issues

1. Is all fields that required in store method should be required in update method ?

   => the question here is should the consumer of APIs should sent all keys object to update specific key

2. If It shouldn't and the keys name sent from APIs is different from the Database table columns name

   => I can't use update($request()->all()); because the key isn't the same as columns name, then I need to loop on all request keys to ignore the key that have null - can be done also by multi-check -

So please what the best practice of that ??

Answer 1

You can do this with the following approach:

$this->validate(
    $request,
    [
        'YOUR INPUT FIELD NAME' => 'required',
    ]
);

---

You can also use $request->validate() since Laravel 5.5+:

$request->validate(
    [
        'YOUR INPUT FIELD NAME' => 'required',
    ]
);

Answer 2

$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
    'phone' => 'sometimes|max:255',
    'name' => 'required|string|max:255',
    'email' => 'required|string|email|max:255',
    'pic_file' => 'sometimes|mimes:jpg,png,jpeg,gif|max:1000',
]);

if ($validator->fails()) {
    return redirect('/')->withErrors($validator);
}