Laravel: Recursive Validation Per Rule - php

Question

I'm working on an admin panel where an administrator can setup validation custom validation rules for membership applications. I understand need to setup a $attribute => $rules pair in the database.
However, there is a requested feature I am not quite sure how to implement. The administrator wants each $key => $rule pair to recursively and optionally have children $key => $rule pairs that would be executed if the parent failed. So in the end, each rule could have 0 to many children rules that would all need to pass to make the parent rule pass.
Example:
// Original validation (Assume age = 16, time_at_job = 18 and monthly_income = 3000)
[
'age' => 'min:21', // Fail, but pass because of subset is all pass
'time_at_job' => 'min:6' // Pass
'monthly_income' => 'min:2000' // Pass
]
// If the original age fails and this passes, then age passes and continue to the original
time_at_job.
[
'age' => 'min:18, // Fail, but pass because of subset is all pass
'time_at_job' => 'min:12' // Pass
'monthly_income' => 'min:2500' // Pass
]
// If the subset age passed and this passes, then the subset age passes, but the subset
time_at_job and monthly income will need to pass before the original age can pass.
[
'age' => 'min:16, // Pass
'time_at_job' => 'min:18' // Pass
'monthly_income' => 'min:3000' // Pass
]
Any help on where to start with this would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I would imagine you could use a method call as the array value, like
public function rules(){
return [
'age' => $this->ageChildCheck(),
]
}
Then after the rules in the validator:
public function ageChildCheck(){
$data = $this->validationData();
if($data['time_at_job'] > passNumber && $data['monthly_income'] > passNumber2){
return 'min:0';
}else{
return 'min:18';
}
}
that should allow you to variably set what the validation rules will be in the end. Set it to 0 if it will auto pass if the conditions are met, and to 18 when they fail.