Laravel validation attributes “nice names”

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Yeahh, the “nice name” attributes as you called it was a real “issue” a few month ago.
Hopefully this feature is now implemented and is very simply to use.

For simplicity i will split the two options to tackle this problem:

  1. Global Probably the more widespread. This approach is very well explained here but basically you need to edit the application/language/XX/validation.php validation file where XX is the language you will use for the validation.

At the bottom you will see an attribute array; that will be your “nice name” attributes array. Following your example the final result will be something like this.

<!-- language: lang-php -->

    'attributes' => array('first_name' => 'First Name')
  1. Locally This is what Taylor Otwell was talking about in the issue when he says:

You may call setAttributeNames on a Validator instance now.

That’s perfectly valid and if you check the source code you will see

<!-- language: lang-php -->

    public function setAttributeNames(array $attributes)
    {
        $this->customAttributes = $attributes;

        return $this;
    }

**So, to use this way see the following straightforward example:**

<!-- language: lang-php -->

    $niceNames = array(
        'first_name' => 'First Name'
    );

    $validator = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules);
    $validator->setAttributeNames($niceNames);

Resources

There is a really awesome repo on Github that have a lot of languages packages ready to go. Definitely you should check it out.

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