Validated Data from Laravel Form Request

There are several ways to validate a request in Laravel. Recently, Laravel 5.5 was released with a few improvements on request validation. Like validate method on Controller now returns validated data, which is covered in laravel-news.

So, I am a big fan of Laravel’s Form request. Now, how can I get the validated data in Form Request ?

Let’s say I have a PostRequest as below:

class PostRequest extends FormRequest {
    public function rules()
    {
        return [
            'title' => 'required',
            'content' => 'required',
        ];
    }
}

Now, let’s validate request using the above PostRequest.

// on your post controller
public function store(PostRequest $request)
{
    $data = $request->validated(); // here is you magic method
    return Post::create($data);
}

As you can see, it can be pretty handy if you have a big form and calling $request->only(...) can be hectic.

Happy Coding…