Laravel - validation date specific date

Question

Can i set a specific date for my validation?

'event_start' => 'required|date|after:today',

for example something like this

 'event_start' => 'required|date|after:Carbon::now()->startOfMonth()',

This doesn't work of course :)

Answer 1

Try this:

'event_start' => 'required|date|after:'.Carbon::now()->startOfMonth(),

Don't forget to put this after namespace:

use Carbon\Carbon;