Stuck on laravel validation

Question

i'm trying to create back end UI of my website. User with admin access can login into the admin section and then edit registered users details.

i have a script which displays list of all registered users. When admin clicks on the name of a particular user, the details of that user is displayed in a form. The inputs of form contains previously stored values.

Now, what i want is if admin wants to change the email or username of that user, the new values should be unique. SO i added validation rule of unique in the validation rules of email and username.

$rules = array(
                'name'=>'min:2',
                'email'=>'email|unique:users',
                'username'=>'min:5|unique:users',
                'password'=>'min:5',
                'cpassword'=>'required_with:password|same:password'
            );

Now if the admin wants to change the name, then the form doesn't processes forward and gives an error that username and email should be unique because this is what i have written in the rules.

Then i created a hidden field(named id) in the form, which contained id of that particular user. I checked the value of the id by echoing $id = Input::get('id') and it displayed id of that particular user.

i tried to use this id in the rules:

$rules = array(
                'name'=>'min:2',
                'email'=>'email|unique:users,email,$id',
                'username'=>'min:5|unique:users,username,$id',
                'password'=>'min:5',
                'cpassword'=>'required_with:password|same:password'
            );

But still I'm getting errors on form submission that email and username should be unique. Why is it still showing error when i have already mentioned to ignore the user's id while checking uniqueness?

Fisherman Fisherman · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-25T13:29:08

on Single quote variable will not work i mean '$variable' won't print the vairiable value instead it will parse $ as string . you should use "$variable" . look here variable is under single quote .. thats a silly mistake php coder do lol. edit this line

'username'=>'min:5|unique:users,username,$id',

to

'username'=>"min:5|unique:users,username,$id",

or this all goes same for email field too

'username'=>'min:5|unique:users,username,'.$id,

Stuck on laravel validation

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