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Different ways to use Laravel Form Requests

Othmane Nemli on June 29, 2021

Laravel provides several different approaches to validate your application’s incoming data. It is most common to use the validate method available ...
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AYOUB BOUSETTA

Not bad, but i guess it's a little bit over-engineered

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Muhammad MP

I prefer to create another form request class for the update method.

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Bowie

+1 to this. I've created two classes both extending the FormRequest class for this. Alternatively you could create a super class in between for inheritance. While the proposed method in this article isn't bad, I prefer this method personally

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Othmane Nemli

It just depend on how you want to structure your project.

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Chidiebere Chukwudi

This!...

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Francisco

what about authorize()? for the store(), update(), destroy(), view() ?

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Arif Zuhairi

Thank you Othmane, this is really good writeup for me to understand, maybe just some little typos in 1st & 3rd pictures, I think

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Othmane Nemli • Edited

It's my pleasure that was helpful for you.. and thank you for pointing the typos :)

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Sahand RahmatPanah

ok, thats good. i want to call $controller->store() manually. how can i create request for store method ???

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camo

Why this does not work inside form request?
$this->input('notification_type_id', null) // Always returns null

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shraddha2v9kulkarni

Thanks to share this idea. It's different approach to learn.

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Ahmed Mubarak

Such a great article, but I was wondering how to pass data like route parameters into the form request, I tried many techniques as per Laravel docs but unluckily did not work for the form request.