Form Validation in Laravel5: The Right Way

Last updated on April 11, 2015

Laravel 5.0 introduces Form Requests, which are a special type of class devoted to validating and authorizing form submissions. Each class contains at least a rules() method which returns an array of rules and an authorize() method which returns a true or false (Boolean) of whether or not the user is authorized to perform their request.

In this tutorial I am going to show you form validation with Form Request class.By using this technique we are validating data with out hitting the actual controller post method(Example:store()).

create routes :app/Http/routes.php

Route::get('/post/create', 'PostController@create');
Route::post('/post/store', 'PostController@store');

Create a controller – app/Http/controllers/PostController.php


Artisan command to generate post Controller, or else you can create post controller manually using any text editor.

php artisan make:controller PostController

In the postController we have imported CreatePostRequest class with use App\Http\Requests\CreatePostRequest and we are using method injection technique(public function store(CreatePostRequest $request)) since we are using CreatePostRequest class only while creating new post. so we are injecting that into sore method.
Create view to show form - resources/views/post/create.blade.php
HTML to show the form.
@extends('app')

@section('content')
    

        

            

                

                    
Create Post
                    

                        @if (count($errors) > 0)
                            

                                Whoops! There were some problems with your input.


                                

                                    @foreach ($errors->all() as $error)
                                        
{{ $error }}
                                    @endforeach
                                
                            
                        @endif

                        

                            

                            

                                Title
                                

                                    
                                
                            

                            

                                Content
                                

                                    
                                
                            


                            

                                

                                    Create post
                                
                            
                        
                    
                
            
        
    
@endsection


Create FormRequest class - app/http/requests/CreatePostRequest.php
Artisan command to create form request class , or you can create manually.
php artisan make:request CreatePostRequest
route->parameter('id'); Here id is the route parameter EX: Route::get('post/view/{id}','PostController@view');
		return true;
	}

	/**
	 * Get the validation rules that apply to the request.
	 *
	 * @return array
	 */
	public function rules()
	{
        return [
            'title' => 'required',
            'content' => 'required'
        ];
    }

}

Now go to your browser and access web page by pointing to http://localhost/pubilc/post/create, you will get form. Submit it with out filling information ,you will get error messages. See the demo.
That is it. I hope you find this post useful. If you have questions or want to share your own advice, leave a comment!


	
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