Laravel unique rule validator breaking during Validator::make - php

Question

I am trying to check to see if (a) column(s) is/are unique by using the Rule::unique('table')->where(function($query) use($x) {...}); functionality but when I pass this into my validator I am getting a strange error. What I think is happening is that it is trying to check if a value is equal in the where the statement that I provided but also a column that it THINKS is the unique ID column for the table but it is not so it is breaking.
protected function validator(array $data)
{
$uid = 660000000;
$rule = Rule::unique('member_record')->where(function ($query) use ($uid) {
return $query->where('uniqueID', $uid);
});
return Validator::make($data, [
'fullName' => ['required', 'string', 'min:2'],
'member_id' => [
'bail', 'required', 'Numeric', $rule,
'exists:new_benefits_member,member_id'
],
'email' => ['bail', 'required', 'email', 'confirmed', 'unique:user,email'],
'password' => [
'required', 'string', 'min:8', 'confirmed',
'regex:/^(?=.*?[A-Z])(?=.*?[a-z])(?=.*?[0-9]).{8,}$/'
],
'terms' => ['required']
]);
}
However, then I am getting an error that looks like the following.
SQLSTATE[42S22]: Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'member_id' in 'where clause' (SQL: select count(*) as aggregate from member_record where member_id = 660000000 and (uniqueID = 660000000))
What my only assumption is that when I am passing data into the Validator::make($data... it is trying to compare the $rule with the $data array and it is messing it up. Let me know if you have any fixes that I can try out.

Answer 1

The problem here is that the Rule::unique() function can take 2 parameters as shown below
public static function unique($table, $column = 'NULL')
{
return new Rules\Unique($table, $column);
}
if column is left as 'NULL' then this will default to the name of the key in the validator::make($x, [] <--- array
as shown in this example.
protected function validator(array $data)
{
$uid = 660000000;
$rule = Rule::unique('member_record')->where(function ($query) use ($uid) {
return $query->where('uniqueID', $uid)->orwhere('client_member_id', $uid);
});
$data['foo'] = 0;
$validator = Validator::make($data, [
'foo' => [$rule]
]);
return $validator;
}
results in this response
Column not found: 1054 Unknown column 'foo' in 'where clause' (SQL: select count(*) as aggregate from member_record where foo = 0 and (uniqueID = 660000000 or client_member_id = 660000000))
If you would like to exclude "is equal to" in the first part of the where clause you would perform a unique check like this
'member_id' => ['unique:member_record,foo']
If you would like to add additional where clauses then you would want to do something like this
'member_id' => ['unique:member_record,foo,NULL,id,bar,' . $uid]
This will return SQL looking like this
select count(*) as aggregate from member_record where foo = 660000000 and bar = 660000000