Laravel 5 Validation: A Unique Rule for Examining Emails

Question

For testing and support, I want one or two letters to be used several times in my user database. All other emails must be unique. For instance:

"email" => "required|email|unique:users,email,[e-mail]"

This does not work, and I cannot use the id field to exclude, because there will be multiple entries with the same email address.

Answer 1

Sounds like a case for sometimes

$whitelist = ['[e-mail]', '[e-mail]', '[e-mail]'];
$validator->sometimes('email', 'unique:users', function($input) use ($whitelist){
    return ! in_array($input->email, $whitelist);
});

Meaning if the email address is not listed in the white list, the rule applies unique.

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Inside the form request, you can add material to the validation instance by overriding getValidatorInstance():

protected getValidatorInstance(){
    $validator = parent::getValidatorInstance();
    $validator->sometimes(...);
    return $validator;
}

Answer 2

, XX - .

"email" => "required|email|unique:users,email,XX,id"

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