Validation

There is two easy ways to perform validation in your models, you can combine them if you want. And there is one hard way. First of all you must extend your models from SleepingOwl\Models\SleepingOwlModel.

Easy Ways

1. In Form Elements

You can add validation rules to your form elements:

FormItem::text('title')->required()->unique()->validationRule('my-custom-rule')

required() accepts one parameter: true if required only on create, false if always required. No parameter equals false.

Use unique() to set this field to be unique in this model.

You can use validationRule($rule) to add any rule you want. You can use pipe delimiter |.

2. In Your Model

You can implement public function getValidationRules() method in your model, that must return validation rules, and thats all.

Hard Way

The other way is to implement SleepingOwl\Models\Interfaces\ValidationModelInterface interface. It declares 2 methods: validate($data) and getValidationRules(). You must manually write validation there. If validation fails method must throw SleepingOwl\Admin\Exceptions\ValidationException.

New Validation Rules

• url_stub – check if field is valid url stub (without slashes)
• url_stub_full – check if field is valid url stub (with slashes)