Best practices to handle the Laravel request validation.

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In Laravel we have a class LaravelRequests to handle all the Http request validations which has a lot of functions which make is too easy to handle the validations in Laravel. Most of the developer define validation rules and validate the inputs in controller, which looks like:

	<?php
	namespace App\Http\Controllers;
	use Illuminate\Http\Request;
	use App\Http\Requests;
	use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
	class MyController extends Controller {
	public function store(Request $request) {
	$request->validate([
	'title' => 'required|unique:posts|max:255',
	'body' => 'required',
	'publish_at' => 'nullable|date',
	]);
	}
	}

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It looks little messy and hard to manage if there are multiple fields coming as a input. So we can resolve this by moving all this mess into request file. How?
Open project directory in terminal and run

• php artisan make:request StoreMyRequests

Now, move check app/Http/Requests there will be a file named as
StoreMyRequests.php. Now open this file and move validation code into this and it will looks like:-

	<?php
	namespace App\Http\Requests;
	use App\Modules\Api\V1\Controllers\ApiController;
	use Illuminate\Contracts\Validation\Validator;
	use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\FormRequest;
	use Illuminate\Http\Request;
	class StoreMyRequests extends FormRequest
	{
	public function rules(Request $request)
	{
	return [
	'title' => 'required|unique:posts|max:255',
	'body' => 'required',
	'publish_at' => 'nullable|date',
	];
	}
	}

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Now, Use these validations in controller like:-

	<?php
	namespace App\Http\Controllers;
	use Illuminate\Http\Request;
	use App\Http\Requests\StoreMyRequests;
	use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
	class MyController extends Controller {
	public function store(StoreMyRequests $request) {
	$request->validated();
	}
	}

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Now, All mess moved from controller and it increase the reuse ability of code. You can use same rules at multiple places.