Laravel | Unique validation where clause

Question

I am trying to validate the input of a email address that exists but only when the company_id is the same as the company_id which is passed in with the request.

I am getting this error...

SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column '1' in 'where clause' (SQL: select count(*) as aggregate from company_users where email_address = myemail.com and 1 <> company_id)

I have read online and the way to do it is to associate the table and the column inside of the validation which is what I am doing.

This is my current code...

required|email|unique:company_users,email_address,company_id,' . $request->company_id

Answer 1

Here is a rough idea with this you can achieve what you

You can use Rule class to customize the validation rule for you.

'email' => ['required', 'string', 'email', 'max:191',Rule::unique('users')->where(function ($query) use ($request) {
    return $query->where('company_id', $request->company_id);
})],

Hope this helps