Laravel 5.8 Custom Form Request not working as intended? - php

Question

I created a custom form request named ClientStoreRequest with the following code:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Requests;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\FormRequest;
class ClientStoreRequest extends FormRequest
{
/**
* Determine if the user is authorized to make this request.
*
* #return bool
*/
public function authorize()
{
return true;
// return $this->user()->can('add-clients');
}
/**
* Get the validation rules that apply to the request.
*
* #return array
*/
public function rules()
{
return [
'name' => 'required|unique:clients|max:255',
'website' => 'required|url',
'street' => 'required',
'town' => 'required',
'postcode' => 'required|max:8',
'county' => 'required',
'country' => 'required'
];
}
}
I then modified my ClientController's store method to look like this:
/**
* Store a newly created resource in storage.
*
* #param ClientStoreRequest $request
* #return \Illuminate\Http\Response
*/
public function store(ClientStoreRequest $request)
{
dd(1);
}
So when the form is submitted, it should kill the page and print a 1 to the screen. When I use ClientStoreRequest $request, it just sends me back to the page where I submitted the form with no errors and no dd(1) result, however when I utilise Request $request it prints 1 to the screen.
Am I missing something really obvious? I've followed the docs to make this.
Edit: I'm using a resource controller so the route is Route::resource('clients', 'ClientController');

Answer 1

A bit embarrassing but this one was purely down to developer error. The custom form request is actually working correctly... just my rules are referencing one field that I forgot to put into my form so isn't showing the errors to the screen! Once I echoed the usual $errors array I could see my error - I'll blame the late night coding!