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Conditionally adding rules to a validator in Laravel

Link – Jan 17th 2017

Mohamed Said explains the not so well known sometimes validation rule in Laravel.

Laravel's validation library is very powerful and easy to use, using a few keystrokes you can build a strong defence around your application, preventing invalid user input from corrupting the application flow and potentially introducing bugs.
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In this post I'd like to highlight a trick related to conditionally adding validation rules.

http://themsaid.com/laravel-advanced-validation-conditionally-adding-rules-20170110/

To learn more read the relevant section in the Laravel docs.

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