Laravel Password & Password_Confirmation Validation

Question

I used this to edit user account information:

$this->validate($request, [ 'password' => 'min:6', 'password_confirmation' => 'required_with:password|same:password|min:6' ]); 

This worked fine in Laravel 5.2 application, but not in 5.4 application.

What is wrong or how to do it correctly to make password mandatory only if the password or password_confirmation field is set?

Answer 1

You can use the confirmed validation rule.

 $this->validate($request, [ 'name' => 'required|min:3|max:50', 'email' => 'email', 'vat_number' => 'max:13', 'password' => 'required|confirmed|min:6', ]); 

Answer 2

Try to do it like this, I succeeded:

 $this->validate($request, [ 'name' => 'required|min:3|max:50', 'email' => 'email', 'vat_number' => 'max:13', 'password' => 'min:6|required_with:password_confirmation|same:password_confirmation', 'password_confirmation' => 'min:6' ]);' 

It seems that the rule always has a first-entry check among the pair ...

Answer 3

try to confirm without the password_confirmation rule:

 $this->validate($request, [ 'name' => 'required|min:3|max:50', 'email' => 'email', 'vat_number' => 'max:13', 'password' => 'confirmed|min:6', ]); 

Answer 4

Try the following:

 'password' => 'required|min:6|confirmed', 'password_confirmation' => 'required|min:6' 

Answer 5

This should be enough to do:

 $this->validate($request, [ 'password' => 'nullable,min:6,confirmed', ]); 

Make the password optional, but if it does, a password confirmation is required that matches