tenga / laravel-validator-with-labels

Library that extends the default Laravel 3 validator implementation with CodeIgnitery passable attribute labels.

Extended Laravel 3 validator with labels

Library that extends the default Laravel validator implementation with CodeIgniter-like passable attribute labels.

Installation

Dump it into application/libraries folder and comment out the default alias for Laravel validator in the application/config/application.php

Usage

Manually passing labels, these will take priority over language/xx/validation defined ones and the ones generated from the name attribute:

// Defining our rules as usual
$rules = array(
	'email' => 'required|email',
	'full_name' => 'required'
);

// Defining our labels for the validator to use
$attribute_labels = array(
	'email' => 'E-mail address',
	'full_name' => 'Your full name'
);

// Make the validator as usual and pass some labels
$validation = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules)->with_labels($attribute_labels);

Calling with_labels() multiple times merges the new labels with the ones already set before and updates in case label keys match.

You can access all defined labels by accessing the attribute_labels property on the Validator object:

$validation = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules)->with_labels($attribute_labels);
$all_labels = $validation->attribute_labels;

And if you need to clear the labels you can clear the labels by using the clear_labels() method

$validation = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules)->with_labels($attribute_labels);

// For some reason we have changed our mind
$validation->clear_labels();