Adding custom validation errors to Laravel form

Question

I have a basic form set up to allow a user to change their email address, and I'm doing the following validation on it before I change the email:

// Set up the form validation $validator = Validator::make(     Input::all(),     array(         'email' => 'email|unique:users',         'password' => 'required'     ) );  // If validation fails, redirect to the settings page and send the errors if ($validator->fails()) {     return Redirect::route('settings')->withErrors($validator)->withInput(); } 

This works fine, however after this basic validation I'd like to check if the user supplied a correct password. To do so, I'm doing the following with Laravel's basic authentication library:

// Find the user and validate their password $user = Auth::user();  if (!Auth::validate(array('username' => $user->username, 'password' => Input::get('password')))) {     die("failed to authenticate"); } 

Rather than handling the logic to tell the user their password is incorrect myself, I'd rather just add a form error to the password input so it shows up just like regular form validation. Something like so:

if (!Auth::validate(array('username' => $user->username, 'password' => Input::get('password')))) {     $validator->addError('password', 'That password is incorrect.');     return Redirect::route('settings')->withErrors($validator)->withInput(); } 

That way, the incorrect password error will show next to my password input and look like proper form validation.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

See Darren Craig's answer.

One way to implement it though.

// inside if(Auth::validate) if(User::where('email', $email)->first()) {     $validator->getMessageBag()->add('password', 'Password wrong'); } else {     $validator->getMessageBag()->add('email', 'Email not found'); }