How to validate without request in Laravel

Question

I need to validate an array but without a request. In laravel docs validation is described like this:

$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
    'title' => 'required|unique:posts|max:255',
    'body' => 'required',
]);

But I can't use $request because the data comes from an external api and the validation is not inside a controller. How can I validate this array? For example:

$validatedData = validate([
    'id' => 1,
    'body' => 'text'
], [
    'id' => 'required',
    'body' => 'required'
]);

Answer 1

Should be. Because $request->all() hold all input data as an array .

$input = [
    'title' => 'testTitle',
    'body' => 'text'
];


$input is your customs array.

$validator = Validator::make($input, [
    'title' => 'required|unique:posts|max:255',
    'body' => 'required',
]);