Laravel validation min and regex being outputted to the same message

0
votes

I'm having a bit of a weird issue and i'm not quite sure why its happening or if i'm just missing something.

I have multiple validation rules on a input 'postcode' field, like so

'postcode' => [
                'required',
                'min:5',
                'max:8',
                'regex:/^[a-z]/i'
              ],

And i've also wrote custom messages for the rules like so

return [
     'postcode.min' => 'The postcode must be at least 5 characters',
     'postcode.regex' => 'Sorry, the postcode must start with a letter',
];

All of my errors are being looped and displayed like this

<div class="error-block {{ (count($errors) > 0) ? '' : 'hide' }}">
    <div class="col-12">
        <ul>
            @if(count($errors) > 0)
                @foreach($errors->all() as $error)
                    <li>{{$error}}</li>
                @endforeach
            @endif
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

But when both rules are hit for the postcode, for example with the input '123', then it pushes both errors out on the same line, but all other errors show correctly, like this

  • The postcode must be at least 5 characters,Sorry, the postcode must start with a letter.
  • The username field is required.
  • The address line 1 field is required.

Why is laravel pushing the min and regex rule messages out on the same line?

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the other li's are different fields, right? var_dump($errors); exit; and see what you get. – delboy1978uk
To display errors, read: laravel.com/docs/5.6/… – Ron van der Heijden
Yes sorry, the form contains more fields than just the postcode. I just put some other error messages from the other fields as an example of how the postcode field is erroring. – S_R

2 Answers

1
votes

As described in the docs, validation rules should be expressed as a string, with different rules for a single input separated by a pipe |. The set of inputs to be validated should be an array, but not the rules themselves.

In your case, for the postcode input:

'postcode' => 'required|min:5|max:8|regex:/^[a-z]/i',
0
votes

That means your $error is an array. if you want to list all error as new line, check if the error is also an array or is not an array.

 @if(count($errors) > 0)
        @foreach($errors->all() as $error)
            @if(is_string($error))
               <li>{{$error}}</li>
           @else
                @foreach( $error as $newBreakdown)
                     <li>{{$newBreakdown}}</li>
                @endforeach
           @endif
        @endforeach
    @endif