Allow validation rule parameters to be defined using arrays about ideas

[themsaid]

This is quite interesting, specially with the case of conditionally changing parameters.

Currently this is very unreadable:

'email' => 'email|unique:users,email'.($item ? ",$item->id" : ''),

Having an way of adding/updating rules parameters can make the validation code more readable. I'm planning to propose some changes to the validator in 5.3 and I believe adding this option is very useful.

[franzliedke]

Not sure if you already know, but passing rules for a field as an array instead of separating them by pipes is already possible.

So, to get what you want, a simple helper function that returns an array of rule parameters into a stringified rule would be enough.

[franzliedke]

passing rules for a field as an array instead of separating them by pipes is already possible

This part isn't really explained in the docs, except for a small mention in the regex rule (because it's the only workaround for using pipes in regexes).

[amitailanciano]

I am aware that it is possible to define rules as an array, but to my knowledge it is not possible to define their parameters in the same manner -- I mentioned in my OP that a helper could be used for that, sure -- however it is tedious and cumbersome, and it does not address or resolve points 2 or 3, and point 4 without some manually work in between the final rules being returned

[taylorotwell]

I think this was essentially solved with introduced of fluent syntax for rules.