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Make ajax validation with Laravel Requests for forms with bootstrap

See the full documentation.

O la Documentación en español

##Installation

1. Composer

Add to the composer of your project

composer require lrgt/laravel-form-ajax-validation

Or edit your composer.json

"require": {
    "lrgt/laravel-form-ajax-validation": "dev-master"
},

2. Add the ServiceProvider

Open the file config/app.php

"providers": {
    ...
    'Lrgt\LaravelFormAjaxValidation\LaravelFormAjaxValidationServiceProvider',
    ...
},

3. Publish vendor resources

You need to publish the necessary views for create the scripts of jQuery

$ php artisan vendor:publish

4. Laravel Request

Create a request

$ php artisan make:Request TestRequest

Add the rules

public function rules()
{
	return [
          'name'=>'required|max:5',
          'description'=>'required',
          'tags'=>'required|min:3',
	];
}

You also can add to the request custom error messages and change de attributes name

public function messages()
{
	return [
          'name.required'=>'Do not forget your name',
          'description.required'=>'You need the description',
          'name.max'=>'Your name have less than 5 letters?',
	];
}

public function attributes(){
        return [
            'name'=>'Your name',
            'tags'=>'The tags',
        ];
    }

5. Add to the view

Create your form

<form method="post" action="<?=url('save_form')?>" id="myform">
    <input type="hidden" name="_token" value="<?=csrf_token()?>">
    <div class="form-group">
        <label for="nombre">Name</label>
        <input type="text" name="name" id="name" class="form-control">
    </div>
    <div class="form-group">
        <label for="descripcion">Description</label>
        <textarea type="text" name="description" id="description" rows="5" class="form-control">
        </textarea>
    </div>
    <div class="form-group">
        <label for="tags">Tags</label>
        <input type="text" name="tags" id="tags" class="form-control">
    </div>
    <input type="submit" value="Save" class="btn btn-success">
</form>

Add the jQuery and include the view that have the ajax script

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
@include('vendor.lrgt.ajax_script', ['form' => '#myform',
'request'=>'App/Http/Requests/TestRequest','on_start'=>true])

You need jQuery 1.11.2 or higher

Where #myform is the id of your form and request is the namespace of your Request. Onstart is just if you want that the validation work from the load of the page. Note: Put the namespace of the request separate with /

Author

• Name: Luis Ramos
• Email: guicholarg@gmail.com

License

The laravel-form-ajax-validation library is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license