Validatorjs API for Laravel 7+

This package is created to handle the frontend form validation by just writing one set of rules for both Laravel and apply them for frontend also

This library generates the frontend validation rules for a form and displaying the errors for respected input/options all of this is done by just defining your Laravel Form Requests, and it also supports laravel's custom attributes names and error message customization

** This library is far from being perfect and currently dosen't suit all the use cases, but still it will work ifor most requirements **

TODO

• [ ] Generate the validation rules which are supported by both Laravel and Validatorjs
• [ ] Add support for** Tailwind CSS** errors (Currently only supports auto error display for Bootstrap 5)
• [ ] Add Support for adding custom validation rules

Quick Installation

$ composer require onemoreblock/laravel-validatorjs

Requirements

• PHP >= 7.0
• Laravel 7|8

Configuration

$ php artisan vendor:publish --provider="OneMoreBlock\Validatorjs\ValidatorJsServiceProvider"

Usage

Currently this package only supports validator js rules generation by using only laravel form requests. So start by creating a laravel Form Request eg: PostRequest

$ php artisan make:request PostRequest

Now open the generated PostRequest file and add make sure to do trhe following

• Replace the default extends class from FormRequest with Validatorjs
• Add a protected variable **$tableID ** ( ID of the table for which to apply the validation on)
• Add a protected variable **$successCallback ** (function name that is to be called on successful validation)
• Now define you validation rules just like before 😃 Here is the sample example for PostRequest

<?php

namespace App\Http\Requests;

use OneMoreBlock\Validatorjs\Validatorjs;

class PostRequest extends Validatorjs
{
    protected $tableID = 'entries';

    protected $successCallback = 'successCallback';

    /**
     * Get the validation rules that apply to the request.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function rules()
    {
        return [
            'f_name' => 'required|min:20|max:30',
            'l_name' => 'required|min:20|max:30',
            'email'  => 'required|email',
        ];
    }

    /**
     * Get custom attributes for validator errors.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function attributes()
    {
        return [
            'f_name' => 'First name',
            'l_name' => 'Last Name',
        ];
    }
    /**
     * Get the error messages for the defined validation rules.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function messages()
    {
        return [
            'f_name.required' => 'A :attribute is required',
            'l_name.required' => 'A :attribute is required',
        ];
    }
}

Now define your controller in the following manner

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Http\Requests\PostRequest;

class PostController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        return (new PostRequest)->render('validatorjs.index'); // blade file
    }
}

Update the view blade file to have following

• Assign form a ID
• Import all the requiered js scripts
• import/define the success callback with the same name as defined earlier

view file example

<form method="post" id="{{ $table_id }}">
    @csrf
    <div class="col-md-4">
        <label for="validationCustom01" class="form-label">First name</label>
        <input type="text" class="form-control" id="validationCustom01" name="f_name" value="Mark">
    </div>
    <div class="col-md-4">
        <label for="validationCustom02" class="form-label">Last name</label>
        <input type="text" class="form-control" id="validationCustom02" name="l_name" value="Otto" >
    </div>
    <div class="col-md-4">
        <label for="validationCustom02" class="form-label">Email</label>
        <input type="email" class="form-control" id="validationCustom02" name="email" >
    </div>
    <input type="submit" value="Sumit" class="btn btn-sm btn-primary">
</form>
{!! $scripts !!}

<script type="text/javascript">
    function successCallback(data) { // same name as $successCallback defined in the PostRequest
        // Stuff to do after the validation is passed
    }
</script>

License

The Laravel-Validatorjs is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.