Laravel Password & Password_Confirmation Validation

Question

I've been using this in order to edit the User Account Info:

$this->validate($request, [     'password' => 'min:6',     'password_confirmation' => 'required_with:password|same:password|min:6' ]); 

This worked fine in a Laravel 5.2 Application but does not work in a 5.4 Application.

What's wrong here, or what is the correct way in order to only make the password required if either the password or password_confirmation field is set?

Answer 1

You can use the confirmed validation rule.

$this->validate($request, [     'name' => 'required|min:3|max:50',     'email' => 'email',     'vat_number' => 'max:13',     'password' => 'required|confirmed|min:6', ]); 

Answer 2

Try doing it this way, it worked for me:

$this->validate($request, [ 'name' => 'required|min:3|max:50', 'email' => 'email', 'vat_number' => 'max:13', 'password' => 'min:6|required_with:password_confirmation|same:password_confirmation', 'password_confirmation' => 'min:6' ]);` 

Seems like the rule always has the validation on the first input among the pair...