Laravel 4 Form Validation, __call () Method Extension

Question

I want to extend the form validation class to support array form elements, as described here for L3 to L4.

First, I changed the Validator alias with this to app/config/app.php:

'Validator'       => 'app\lib\Support\Facades\Validator',

Then I saved these codes as app / lib / Support / Facades / Validator.php

<?php namespace app\lib\Support\Facades;


class Validator extends \Illuminate\Support\Facades\Validator {

    public function __call($method, $parameters) {

      if (substr($method, -6) === '_array') {

          $method = substr($method, 0, -6);
          $values = $parameters[1];
          $success = true;
          foreach ($values as $value) {
              $parameters[1] = $value;


              $rule = snake_case(substr($method, 8));

                if (isset($this->extensions[$rule]))
                {
                    $success &= $this->callExtension($rule, $parameters);
                }

                throw new \BadMethodCallException("Method [$method] does not exist.");
          }
          return $success;
      } else {
          return parent::__call($method, $parameters);
      }

    }

    protected function getMessage($attribute, $rule) {

        if (substr($rule, -6) === '_array') {
          $rule = substr($rule, 0, -6);
        }

        return parent::getMessage($attribute, $rule);
    }

}

Then I made sure that mine composer.jsonhas a folder included for startup:

"autoload": {
    "classmap": [
        "app/commands",
        "app/controllers",
        "app/models",
        "app/database/migrations",
        "app/database/seeds",
        "app/tests/TestCase.php",

        "app/lib",
        "app/lib/Support",
        "app/lib/Support/Facades"
    ]
},

Then I ran php composer.phar dump-autoloadto create startup classes.

The thing is, it doesn't seem to work. I even tried to add a special verification method to the file I created, something like this:

protected function validateTest($attribute, $value) {
    return $value=='test';
}

It says: Method [validateTest] does not exist.. I changed the value protectedto public, anyway.

get_class(Validator::getFacadeRoot()) \Illuminate\Validation\Factory, , , : Non-static method Illuminate\Validation\Factory::make() should not be called statically.

. , , L4, , __call() getMessage().

, ?

Answer 1

, . , app/routes.php , !

, :

$rules = array(
    'items'     => 'required|min:1|integerOrArray'
);