Validation

• Introduction
• Custom Messages
• Using Aware

Introduction

Administrator uses Laravel's validation to validate your models. You can either provide a rules option in your configuration files:

'rules' => array(
	'name' => 'required',
	'age' => 'required|integer|min:18',
)

Or for model pages, you can provide a static $rules property in your Eloquent models like this:

class Movie extends Eloquent {

	/**
	 * Validation rules
	 */
	public static $rules = array(
		'name' => 'required',
		'age' => 'required|integer|min:18',
	);
}

Now if an admin user tries to save a Movie without an age or an age below 18, Administrator will notify the user of the error and disallow the save from occurring.

Custom Messages

There's a good chance that you'll need to use custom validation messages for each model that you're presenting to your users. In order to do this, you can provide a messages option in your configuration files:

'messages' => array(
	'name.required' => 'The name field is required',
	'age.min' => 'The minimum age is 18 years old',
)

Or for model pages, you can provide a static $messages property in your Eloquent models like this:

class Movie extends Eloquent {

	/**
	 * Validation rules
	 */
	public static $messages = array(
		'name.required' => 'The name field is required',
		'age.min' => 'The minimum age is 18 years old',
	);
}

Using Aware

If you're already using Aware, then you don't really have to do anything! Aware allows you to define a static $rules property on your Eloquent models, which works exactly like it does in Administrator.