Conditional Validation If Checkbox Selected Laravel
I Have a Form in Laravel in Which I Want to Validate Three Text Fields Based on a Checkbox. Its an Edit User Form in Which I Only Want to Update the Password...
I have a form in Laravel in which I want to validate three text fields based on a checkbox. Its an edit user form in which I only want to update the password if I select yes. This is the form in my view:
<section>
<div class="form">
<h1>Edit: {!! $user->name !!}</h1>
{!! Form::model($user, ['method' => 'PATCH', 'action' => ['AccountController@update', $user->id], 'files' => true]) !!}
<p>Name: {!! Form::text('name') !!}
<p>Email: {!! Form::text('email') !!}
<p>Update Password? (tick for yes) {!! Form::checkbox('updatepasswordcheck', 0, false) !!}
<p>Old Password: {!! Form::password('oldpassword') !!}
<p>New Password: {!! Form::password('newpassword') !!}
<p>New Password Confirm: {!! Form::password('newpasswordconfirm') !!}
@if($user->role_id == 1)
<p>User Role: {!! Form::select('user_type', ['admin', 'guest'], '1') !!}
@else
<p> User Role: {!! Form::select('user_type', ['admin', 'guest'], '0') !!}
@endif
<p>{!! Form::submit('Update') !!}
{!! Form::close() !!}
@include ('errors.list_errors')
</div>
</section>
I then have a request called EditAccountRequest like so:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Requests;
use App\Http\Requests\Request;
class EditAccountRequest extends Request
{
/**
* Determine if the user is authorized to make this request.
*
* @return bool
*/
public function authorize()
{
return true;
}
/**
* Get the validation rules that apply to the request.
*
* @return array
*/
public function rules()
{
if($this->inputs['updatepasswordcheck'])
{
$rules['oldpassword'] = 'required';
$rules['newpassword'] = 'required';
$rules['newpasswordconfirm'] = 'required';
}
$rules['name'] = 'required|min:3';
$rules['email'] = 'required|email';
return $rules;
}
}
My problem is that when I see if the checkbox 'updatepasswordcheck' is true it never works because the input always appears as null. Anyone know how to fix this?
5 Answers
Ok I worked it out. I did this and it works:
public function rules()
{
if($this->has('updatepasswordcheck'))
{
$rules['oldpassword'] = 'required';
$rules['newpassword'] = 'required';
$rules['newpasswordconfirm'] = 'required';
}
$rules['name'] = 'required|min:3';
$rules['email'] = 'required|email';
return $rules;
}
I'm using Laravel 5.5 and this code works fine, my scenario was if "Company Info" drop-down selected "Yes" then "Company Name" should be required.
Controller:
protected function validator(array $data)
{
return Validator::make($data, [
'company_name' => 'required_if:is_company,1',
]);
}
View:
<label class="control-label">Company Info</label>
<select id="is_company" class="form-control" name="is_company">
<option value="0">No</option>
<option value="1">Yes</option>
</select>
<label class="control-label">Company Name</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="company_name">
You could do the following in this example:
public function rules(Request $request)
{
if($request->has('updatepasswordcheck'))
{
$rules['oldpassword'] = 'required';
$rules['newpassword'] = 'required';
$rules['newpasswordconfirm'] = 'required';
}
$rules['name'] = 'required|min:3';
$rules['email'] = 'required|email';
return $rules;
}
A cleaner and straight forward solution
$validated = $request->validate([
.
.
.
'newpasswordconfirm' => 'required|accepted',
'oldpassword' => 'required',
'newpassword' => $request->newpasswordconfirm === 'yes' ? 'required': 'nullable',
]);
may be can use required_unless for this purpose:
$this->validate($request,
[
'content' => 'required_unless:otherfields,null',
],
[
'content.required_unless' => 'Please enter content for detail'
]);
Documentation:
there is another way to Take a look at the sometimes rule. This will run the rule only when the field is available:
Documentation:
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