Forum Input replace before calling rules in FormRequest

movepixels

posted 8 years ago

Input Forms Validation

Last updated 1 year ago.

movepixels

replied 8 years ago

Makes no sense.........

modified the sanitize function like:

public function sanitize()
    {
        $input = $this->all(); //trying both since neither seem to do anything
        Request::all();

        $input['title'] = trim(strtolower($input['title']));

        Request::replace($input); //LOG SHOWS ZERO CHANGES
        $this->replace($input);

        Log::info(Request::all());
    }

I have a rule on title

return [
        'title'         => 'required|min:5|max:50'
];

Go to the form and in title field enter => D [spacebar][spacebar][spacebar][spacebar][spacebar] X and it validates even with only 2 characters, its not doing anything to the data.......

Tried Input::all() Input::replace() merge,

Please help, I have tried just about everything.

movepixels

replied 8 years ago

Solution

If this helps anyone or can be improved please let me know, I will move it to the request.php so it can run on all requests.

Removes all whitespace in a string and also before and after.

So input like => [space] [space] [space] H [space] EL [space] [space] [space] [space] LO H EL LO

Will return HELLO before validation


public function all()
  {
    $input = parent::all();

    $whitespace = create_function('&$value, &$key','$key; $value = trim(preg_replace("/\s+/", " " ,$value));');
    array_walk_recursive($input,$whitespace);

    return $input;
  }

Only problem so far is Laravel validation counts spaces as valid characters so min:5 does not really mean 5 characters since passing=> a b c (you see 3 characters but it gets counted as 5 with the space) will pass validation