Form Requests

Classic Laravel 5+ form request validation.

Once you generated the module using Twill's CLI module generator, it will also prepare the App/Http/Requests/Twill/ModuleNameRequest.php for you to use. You can choose to use different rules for creation and update by implementing the following 2 functions instead of the classic rules one:

 1<?php
 2 
 3public function rulesForCreate()
 4{
 5    return [];
 6}
 7 
 8public function rulesForUpdate()
 9{
10    return [];
11}

There is also an helper to define rules for translated fields without having to deal with each locales:

1<?php
2 
3$this->rulesForTranslatedFields([
4 // regular rules
5], [
6  // translated fields rules with just the field name like regular rules
7]);

There is also an helper to define validation messages for translated fields:

1<?php
2 
3$this->messagesForTranslatedFields([
4 // regular messages
5], [
6  // translated fields messages
7]);

Once you defined the rules in this file, the UI will show the corresponding validation error state or message next to the corresponding form field.

# Validating repeater fields

To validate repeater fields added to your model you can reuse the same rulesForCreate and rulesForUpdate methods.

If your repeater is named accordion_item and you want to add validation to the headline field you can use:

1public function rulesForCreate()
2{
3    return ['repeaters.accordion_item.*.header' => 'required'];
4}

Alternatively if your field is translatable you can use the helpers as defined above:

1public function rulesForUpdate()
2{
3    return $this->rulesForTranslatedFields([], [
4        'repeaters.accordion_item.*.header' => 'required'
5    ]);
6}