Date validation with nullable and greater than condition in laravel-CodePudding

I am stuck in validation in Laravel.

$validatedData = $this->validate($request, [
   "date1" => "nullable",
   'date2' => 'nullable|after:date1',
]);

Sometimes, both date1 and date2 will be nullable. If I select date2 then date1 could not be null and date 2 should be greater than date1.

TIA

CodePudding user response：

You can use the required_with rule to validate a field X to be required based on field Y.

Usage: required_with:field1,field2,.... At least 1 field is required. Where field1 can be any input parameter with which you want to check the field with.

Updated code:

$validatedData = $this->validate($request, [
  'date1' => 'nullable|date|required_with:date2',
  'date2' => 'nullable|date|after:date1'
]);

Explanation:

Here the input field date1 will be required if the date2 field has some value and is validated successfully, based on the validation rules passed to it.