Forum How to add `OR` operator to validation rule?

almis90

posted 10 years ago

Validation

Last updated 2 years ago.

robclancy

replied 10 years ago

Solution

$input = Input::only('account'); // dont use all(), ever
$rules = [
    'account' => 'required'
];
if (filter_var($input['account'], FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
{
    $rules['account'] .= '|exists:users,email';
}
else
{
    $rules['account'] .= '|exists:users,username';
}

$validator = Validator::make($input, $rules);

Last updated 2 years ago.

alexrussell

replied 10 years ago

You may want to consider adding your own rule which does the 'or' check in one rule. Maybe make it follow the exists rule but takes in all column names. I'd guess it's relatively trivial to copy-and-paste the code for the current exists rule and make it foreach over a bunch of column names.

Last updated 2 years ago.