As part of a form, I want to submit up to five images and validate them in a FormRequest with custom error messages.
The file submit part of the form looks like this:
<div id="dzone" class="form-group dropzone {{ $errors->has('images') ? ' has-error' : '' }}">
<div class="fallback">
<label for="images[]">Select up to five images...</label>
<input name="images[]" type="file" multiple/>
</div>
@if ($errors->has('images'))
<span class="help-block">{{ $errors->first('images') }}</span>
@endif
</div>
My FormRequest looks like this:
namespace App\Http\Requests;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\FormRequest;
class StoreListingFormRequest extends FormRequest
{
/**
* Determine if the user is authorized to make this request.
*
* @return bool
*/
public function authorize()
{
return true;
}
/**
* Get the validation rules that apply to the request.
*
* @return array
*/
public function rules()
{
return [
'title' => 'required|max:255',
'body' => 'required|max:2000',
'price' => 'required|max:100|regex:/^\d{1,13}(\.\d{1,4})?$/',
'contact_details' => 'required',
"images" => "required|array|min:1|max:5",
'images.*' => 'required|mimes:jpg,jpeg,png,bmp|max:2000',
'category_id' => [
'required',
\Illuminate\Validation\Rule::exists('categories', 'id')->where(function ($query) {
$query->where('usable', true);
})
],
'area_id' => [
'required',
\Illuminate\Validation\Rule::exists('areas', 'id')->where(function ($query) {
$query->where('usable', true);
})
]
];
}
public function messages()
{
return [
'contact_details.required' => 'At least one method of contact is required for your advert.',
'images.min' => 'Please upload one or more images',
'images.max' => 'A maximum of five images are allowed',
'images.*.mimes' => 'Only jpeg,png and bmp images are allowed',
'images.*.max' => 'Sorry! Maximum allowed size for an image is 2MB',
];
}
}
There several things not working with the images validation:
First, if I set min:1 on the images array it does not return an error message if I submit no images but if I set it to 2 it returns my custom error message.
I cannot get any error messages to return for images..mimes' or 'images..max'
what am I doing wrong here?
