Playing around with a referral system in laravel 5.4. I have been able to create a unique shareable link for each user.
When another user clicks on that, I want the portion of the url with the referral id of the link's original owner to be added to the referrer field of the user.
I tried this method and been getting this error, what better way is there to do this.
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Input;
protected function create(array $data)
{
$ref = Input::get('ref');
return User::create([
'name' => $data['name'],
'email' => $data['email'],
'password' => bcrypt($data['password']),
'referrer' => $ref
]);
return $user;
}
I am getting an error complaining that the referrer column cannot be null even though there is a ref on the link.
Sample link.
http://localhost:8000/register?ref=1b0a6294-043d-11e7-86bf-56847afe9799
User Model
protected $fillable = [
'name', 'email', 'password', 'level', 'btc_address', 'referrer'
];`
I think the problem might be your routes and url you use in form for registering user.
The url you showed is probably for displaying registration form, but when you send the form, you send it to http://localhost:8000/register url so you don't have ref defined in your url.
You should make sure, that you send form also to http://localhost:8000/register?ref=1b0a6294-043d-11e7-86bf-56847afe9799 url or put hidden field with ref value from get action.
Related
I am doing validation this way.
$rules = [
'email'=> 'required|regex:/^.+#.+$/i|unique:tab_example,email,'.$this>get('example_id').',example_id'
];
return $rules;
However, I am not getting success.
The error informs that
the email already exists
What I want is that if the email already exists and is from the same user does not need to inform that the email already exists.
I do not know what the problem is in my code.
You can use
'email' => "required|email|unique:users,email,{$id},id",
The id should be replaced with the primary key column name of the table you use for the unique check. The {$id} should be defined before $rules array like:
$id = $request->route('user')
Sometimes, you may wish to ignore a given ID during the unique check.
For example, consider an "update profile" screen that includes the user name, e-mail address, and location. Of course, you will want to verify that the e-mail address is unique.
However, if the user only changes the name field and not the e-mail field, you do not want a validation error to be thrown because the user is already the owner of the e-mail address.
you can use like:
'email' => [
'required',
Rule::unique('users')->ignore($user->id),
],
Try this
'email' => Rule::unique('users')->ignore($user->id, 'user_id');
Read Under the Section Forcing A Unique Rule To ignore A given Field
Try This way
$rules = [
'email'=> ['required', 'email', \Illuminate\Validation\Rule::unique('tab_example', 'email')->whereNot('example_id',$this->get('example_id'))]
];
Just use
$this->route('example_id')
instead of
$this>get('example_id')
And if you use resource route then use $this->route('user').
$rules = [
'email'=> 'required|regex:/^.+#.+$/i|unique:tab_example,email,'.$this->route('example_id').',example_id'
];
return $rules;
I'm new on Laravel and as I'm playing around with it I encounter this issue.
I have a registration system which worked fine but now I wanted to add a new field in my table (description field for users).
However, this description field, I don't want to be filled when the user signs up, I want the user to fill this when he gets on his profile and updates a modal window.
The problem is, if I let that filed empty, I get an error when I sign up saying that the description filed can't be empty.
This is what I use in my UserController in order to update the description field but I'm not sure if is correct.
public function postDesc(Request $request){
$this->validate($request, [
'description' => 'required|min:20'
]);
$user = User::all();
$user->description = $request->input('description');
$user->save();
return redirect()->route('user.profile.edit');
}
This is how I opened the form:
{!! Form::open(['method' => 'PUT', 'action' => 'UserController#postDesc', 'class' => 'profile-form']) !!}
You use required validation rule, that's why you get the message. You should use different validation rules for register page and profile update form.
Good practice is to create two Request classes and use them for validation of two forms.
In this scenario, I will prefer to keep your description column nullalbe(). So it won't throw an error that description field is empty at the time of sign up.
And later you can update the description field.
public function postDesc(Request $request)
{
$this->validate($request, [
'description' => 'required|min:20'
]);
// Get the logged in user id using auth and then updating description filed
$user = User::where('user_id', Auth::id())
->update([
'description' => $request->description
]);
return redirect()->route('user.profile.edit');
}
Take a scenario,
There are 2 fields available in the form.
1) input type file for manual upload.
2) input type = text to enter youtube video url.
is it possible using laravel built-in validations so that validation will be fired if user has left both fields empty!
I have gone through https://laravel.com/docs/5.3/validation but could not find what I wanted.
In your controller, you could do something like this:
$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
'link_upload' => 'required|etc|...',
]);
$validator2 = Validator::make($request->all(), [
'file_upload' => 'required|etc|...',
]);
if ($validator->fails() && $validator2->fails()) {
// return with errors
}
Try required-without-all validation rule. As given in documentation:
The field under validation must be present only when the all of the other specified fields are not present.
Assuming your fields name are url and file, your rule would be like below:
$rules = [
'url' => 'required_without_all:file',
'file' => 'required_without_all:url'
];
required_without:foo,bar,...
The field under validation must be present and not empty only when any of the other specified fields are not present.
Try this,
In youre update method add this
$this->validate($request, [
'fileName'=>'required',
'urlName'=>'required'
]);
dont forget to set the fillable in your model
protected $fillable = ['fileName','urlName'];
Hope this helps
I have a user model that needs to have unique email addresses but I also want to allow them to be left blank in case the user has no email...I see in docs there is a way to make a rule for unique and an exception for an id...but I'm not sure how to make this allow null or blank but unique if it is not. Sorry seems like this is simple but I can't think of the answer.
public static $adminrules =
'email' => 'email|unique:users,email,null,id,email,NOT_EMPTY'
);
Edit It may be that using the rule without required is enough since a blank or null would pass validation in those cases. I might have a related bug that making it so I can't add more than 1 blank email, so I can't verify this.
public static $adminrules =
'email' => 'email|unique:users'
);
I tried this. Adding 'nullable' before 'sometimes'.
$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
'email' => 'nullable|sometimes|unique:users',
]);
You should try this:
$v->sometimes('email', 'email|unique:users,email', function($input)
{
return !empty($input->email);
});
$v is your validator object and you basically say that in case the email field is not empty it should also be unique (there shouldn't be a users table record with this value in email column).
In your Requests/UserRequest you'd have something like
public function rules()
{
return [
'email' => [
'nullable',Rule::unique((new User)->getTable())->ignore($this->route()->user->id ?? null)
]
];
}
The usage of nullable is what allows the field to be nullable. The other part is to check if the email is unique in the User model table.
If you wish to validate if the field is unique
between two fields please refer to this answer.
in another table, then add the following to your rules
'exists:'.(new ModelName)->getTable().',id'
You should try to change your structure of database to make the field email is nullable. And in the rules try this :
$this->validate($request,
[
'email' => 'email',
]
);
if(isset($request->address))
{
$this->validate($request,
[
'email' => 'email|unique:users'
]
);
}
I am using the default Laravel 5 authentication system. I would like to simply add a check that verifies that the user is using a school email account (I am writing this for my University). So for example I want to make sure they are using #harvard.edu, and not #gmail.com. If they are not using the correct email type, I want to add an error to the $errors variable, and print that along with the the other possible errors on the registration form.
It appears that the actual validation occurs in Registrar.php. I am assuming I will have to add something to the email portion of the validator function.
public function validator(array $data)
{
return Validator::make($data, [
'name' => 'required|max:255',
'email' => 'required|email|max:255|unique:users',
'password' => 'required|confirmed|min:6',
]);
}
The other part I am confused about is where the actually error messages are located.
I am new to Laravel, thanks in advance.
To add a custom validation, you can read the documentation at http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/validation#custom-validation-rules . For example, in you case:
Validator::extend('email_harvard', function($attribute, $value, $parameters)
{
$segments = explode("#", $value, 2);
return end($segments) == "harvard.com";
});
After that, modify your validator rules, change the line:
'email' => 'required|email|max:255|unique:users',
to be:
'email' => 'required|email|email_harvard|max:255|unique:users',
About the error messages, you can read here. In Laravel 5, the validation messages are located at resources/lang/xx/validation.php where xx is the language code.