Laravel validation attributes "nice names"
Yeahh, the "nice name" attributes as you called it was a real "issue" a few month ago.Hopefully this feature is now implemented and is very simply to use.
For simplicity i will split the two options to tackle this problem:
Global Probably the more widespread. This approach is very well explained here but basically you need to edit the application/language/XX/validation.php validation file where XX is the language you will use for the validation.
At the bottom you will see an attribute array; that will be your "nice name" attributes array. Following your example the final result will be something like this.
'attributes' => array('first_name' => 'First Name')
Locally This is what Taylor Otwell was talking about in the issue when he says:
You may call setAttributeNames on a Validator instance now.
That's perfectly valid and if you check the source code you will see
public function setAttributeNames(array $attributes){ $this->customAttributes = $attributes; return $this;}
So, to use this way see the following straightforward example:
$niceNames = array( 'first_name' => 'First Name');$validator = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules);$validator->setAttributeNames($niceNames);
Resources
There is a really awesome repo on Github that have a lot of languages packages ready to go. Definitely you should check it out.
Hope this helps.
The correct answer to this particular problem would be to go to your app/lang folder and edit the validation.php file at the bottom of the file there is an array called attributes:
/*|--------------------------------------------------------------------------| Custom Validation Attributes|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|| The following language lines are used to swap attribute place-holders| with something more reader friendly such as E-Mail Address instead| of "email". This simply helps us make messages a little cleaner.|*/'attributes' => array( 'username' => 'The name of the user', 'image_id' => 'The related image' // if it's a relation),
So I believe this array was built to customise specifically these attribute names.
Since Laravel 5.2 you could...
public function validForm(\Illuminate\Http\Request $request){ $rules = [ 'first_name' => 'max:130' ]; $niceNames = [ 'first_name' => 'First Name' ]; $this->validate($request, $rules, [], $niceNames); // correct validation