Laravel Form Validation extending Validator

Question

I'm having trouble creating and using my own validation rule using the laravel framework.

There are my steps app/customValidation I'm extending Validator by creating my own class. I called that class "customValidation"

class customValidation extends Illuminate\Validation\Validator{

        public function itsTimeToValidateInput($attribute, $value){
            Validator::extend('alpha_spaces', function($attribute, $value){

                return preg_match('/^[\pL\s]+$/u', $value);
            });
        }
 }

app/start/global I then included my custom class in global.php require

```app_path(). '/customValidation.php';

I then use my custom validation in a function I wrote in one of my controllers and it's not working. Below is a portion of my function suntax. The "apha_spaces" is my extension of the validator. It's not working. My question is, how do I get it to work?

        ```$rules = array(
            'expression' => 'required|max:90|min:3|alpha_spaces|unique:sayings'
        );

        $validator = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules);

Answer 1 · 2014-11-26T22:12:06Z

November 26, 2014 10:12pm

Not always the best but try: http://culttt.com/2014/01/20/extending-laravel-4-validator/

*EDIT this looks a lot better.

also laracasts has a free video on validation

Instead of validating for excessive/any white space, why don't you crop them out anyway with trim? Unless you have a really valid reason to throw a validation error at the user! I would checkout all similar string functions - there's bound to be one there to suit your needs.

I've read the documentation and can see what you're trying to get at. From what I can tell, you've combined two different ways to add a new function for this validation.

I would first make it more Laravel-ee and do:

<?php


use Illuminate\Validation\Validator;

class customValidation extends Validator{

also:

Although down to the developer, Laravel is very consistent with naming, so I would recommend using standard class names with studly caps:

class CustomValidation

instead of

class customValidation

You're probably looking to do something more like:

<?php

Validator::extend('alpha_spaces', function($attribute, $value, $parameters)
{
    //awesome code here
});

and that's it!

No need to create a new class.

But if you do want to create a new class, you could maybe do something like:

<?php


use App\Namespace\Here\CustomValidator;

class RegistrationForm extends CustomValidator {


 $rules = array( /*Loads of sweet rules */ );




}

and in your custom validator class

<?php

use Illuminate\Validation\Validator;

class CustomValidator extends Validator {

public function validateAlphaSpaces($attribute, $value, $parameters)
{
    return $value == 'foo';
}

}

because your class that contains the rules is extending your custom validator, which is extending validator, you should have everything you need!

I haven't tested any of this so simplify first by adding a simple callback function, then advance onto a whole new class!

Tom

Answer 2 · 2014-11-25T07:32:01Z

November 25, 2014 7:32am

If you return false in your alpha_spaces methid do you receive any errors? Your reg ex may be wrong.

Are any of the other validations working?

Have you validation messages set for the alpha_spaces method?

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