Laravel 5.x Cookbook

Validating incoming input

The previous work did not cover validation. We could check for comic, and then check that the user is the owner. What I will do here is show how to use Form Request Validation to validate the incoming request.

Getting ready

If you have been following along, you have the app/Http/Controllers/FavoriteCreate.php controller in place, so we are going to add validation to it.

How to do it…

1. Add toastr so that we can notify people as needed (https://github.com/Foxandxss/angular-toastr); you will see in the next layout that I had to move several files from the bower_components/angular-toastr to the public/js and public/css folders.
2. I also install the Angular animate:

   >bower install angular-toastr#0.4.1 -S
   

3. Add it to resources/views/layout.blade.php ...