Make http/https optional in laravel validation

Question

When I use laravel url validation rules like:-

array(
      'name' => 'required|min:3',
      'url' => 'required|url'
)

It rejects any url that does not have http:// or https://. However I would like to make it optional.

Answer 1

You can just ignore the url rule. Or you need to prefix your input.

Another way is to set an custom rule.