laravel custom validation error for each regex pattern-CodePudding

so I have validated a password with different regex pattern, now I want to return different validation messages for each pattern so that user can get a exact error message, I don't want to return one message for all patterns.

so whatever I've tried so far is as below

        $request->validate([
            'password'=>[
                'required',
                'min:8',
                'string',
                'regex:/[a-z]/',
                'regex:/[A-Z]/',
                'regex:/[0-9]/',
                'regex:/[@$!%*#?&]/', //required special chars
                'not_regex:/^(20|19|0)/', //must not start with 20 or 19 or 0
                'not_regex:/(.)\1{1}/', //doubles are not allowed
                'not_regex:/(123(?:4(?:5(?:6(?:7(?:89?)?)?)?)?)?|234(?:5(?:6(?:7(?:89?)?)?)?)?|345(?:6(?:7(?:89?)?)?)?|456(?:7(?:89?)?)?|567(?:89?)?|6789?|789)/', //sequential number must not be more than 2
            ]
        ],[
            'password.regex.0'=>'password must contain a lower case character',
            'password.regex.1'=>'password must contain an upper case character',
        ]);

but the custom message is not working for regex patterns, its only returning common message "The password format is invalid." is there any ideal way to do that?

NB: I have checked all the stack overflow questions but got no solutions, My validation works fine just need to return specific error message for each pattern.

CodePudding user response：

You can create either a custom validation rule for each regex with an appropriate message in each, or you could use an inline closure.

$request->validate([
            'password'=>[
                'required',
                'min:8',
                'string',
                function ($attribute, $value, $fail) {
                    if (!preg_match(“/[@$!%*#?&]/“, $value)) {
                        $fail('You must include a special character.');
                    }
                },
                // ...
            ]
        ],[
            'password.regex.0'=>'password must contain a lower case character',
            'password.regex.1'=>'password must contain an upper case character',
        ]);