My form has the same input field multiple times. My form field is as follows:
<input type='text' name='items[]'>
<input type='text' name='items[]'>
<input type='text' name='items[]'>
And request contains ($request['items'):
array:1 [▼
"items" => array:3 [▼
0 => "item one"
1 => "item two"
2 => "item three"
]
]
I want atleast one of the items to be filled. My current validation in the controller is
$validator = Validator::make($request->all(),[
'items.*' => 'required|array|size:1'
]);
It does not work. I tried with combination of size, required, nullable. Nothing works.
In fact, it's enough to use:
$validator = Validator::make($request->all(),[
'items' => 'required|array'
]);
The changes made:
items
instead of items.*
- you want to set rule of general items, if you use items.*
it means you apply rule to each sent element of array separatelysize:1
because it would mean you want to have exactly one element sent (and you want at least one). You don't need it at all because you have required
rule. You can read documentation for required rule and you can read in there that empty array would case that required
rule will fail, so this required
rule for array makes that array should have at least 1 element, so you don't need min:1
or size:1
at all