Laravel 4 Passing exception variables - php

Question

I'm confused by the error that is being received while attempting to throw an exception, Undefined variable: validation
This is the first time I've tried to create a custom exception and I must be doing something wrong. Here I'm just trying to validate a row being inserted into the database (which works), the problem I'm having is with the exception.
Controller
public function store()
{
try
{
$this->deals->insertDeal(Input::all());
}
catch(ValidationError $e)
{
return Redirect::route('deals.create')
->withInput()
//this is the unknown variable
->withErrors($validation->errors);
}
return Redirect::route('deals.create')
->with('message', 'Deal Created');
}
Model
public function insertDeal($input)
{
$validation = new Services\Validators\Deal;
if ($validation->passes()) {
$deals = Deals::create($input);
}
$errors = $validation->errors;
throw new ValidationError($validation->errors);
}
Custom Validation Error
class ValidationError extends Exception {}
App::error(function(ValidationError $e){
});
To recap, i'm just not sure why i'm getting the error of undefined variable when I try to trigger the exception. Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Basically, $validation is not available within the scope of the store() method. You can pass the errors through the exception by rewriting your ValidationError class:
class ValidationError extends Exception
{
protected $errors;
public function __construct($errors)
{
$this->errors = $errors;
}
public function getErrors()
{
return $this->errors;
}
}
and accessing the errors in store():
public function store()
{
try {
$this->deals->insertDeal(Input::all());
} catch(ValidationError $e) {
return Redirect::route('deals.create')
->withInput()
->withErrors($e->getErrors());
}
return Redirect::route('deals.create')
->with('message', 'Deal Created');
}