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Customising and extending Laravel Form Requests

Original – by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Form requests are often used for validation purposes only, but they can do a whole lot more. You can manipulate data before and after validation, and you can easily add methods of your own.

In this video I'll demonstrate all these possiblities.

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