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thomascawthorn
22,986 PointsWhy are Laravel validations run in the controller?
It seems Laravel has opted to validate input within the controller. This seems really strange (to me) because model-level validation has been drilled into me from the Rails documentation and Treehouse courses.
I've found a couple of packages (like this one https://github.com/JeffreyWay/Laravel-Model-Validation) which have made it possible to validate inside the model. This would better make for a 'skinny controller' but it's really just the same code elsewhere..
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Hampton Paulk
5,093 PointsThey don't have to be in the controller, in fact, I would prefer them to be a service. However, this would be more of an intermediate to advanced topic. This is the reason I am showing them in the controller to start with, then I will show you in upcoming lessons how to move them to a service.
If you would like to skip ahead and keep learning faster you should look here:
thomascawthorn
22,986 Pointsthomascawthorn
22,986 PointsSweet!