Validation

Create a validator from an input array:

use Bhitti\Validation\Validator;

$validator = Validator::make(request()->all())
    ->required(['name', 'email'])
    ->string(['name', 'email'])
    ->email('email')
    ->max('name', 100);

Checking validation

if ($validator->fails()) {
    return response()->json([
        'errors' => $validator->errors(),
    ], 422);
}

$data = $validator->validated();

Available rules

->nullable('phone')
->required(['name', 'email'])
->string('name')
->int('age')
->bool('active')
->email('email')
->min('password', 8)
->max('name', 100)
->between('name', 8, 100)
->in('status', ['active', 'inactive'])
->confirmed('password')
->sometimes('company_name', $callback)
->custom($callback)
->bail()

bail() enables fail-fast validation: the first recorded failure throws ValidationException. Without bail(), inspect fails()/errors() after applying rules.

Validation exceptions

validated() also throws ValidationException when validation has failed; otherwise it returns only fields that participated in validation rules.