Right Way to validate form input fields

Question

I'm building an API, one of the db table Person have 52 columns and most of them are required t don't think the way I'm doing is right

public function store() {
    if (! input::get('name') or ! input::get('age') or ! input::get('phone') or ! input::get('address') and so on till the 52 field) {
        return "Unprocessable Entity";
    }

    return "Validated";
}

And how to properly validate all the required fields

Thank You

Answer 1

You can simply write your validation rules and messages within a Request file and can call directly within your store function like as

<?php

namespace App\Http\Requests;

use App\Http\Requests\Request;
use Illuminate\Validation\Rule;

/**
 * Class YourFileRequest
 * @package App\Http\Requests
 */
class YourFileRequest extends Request
{

    /**
     * Determine if the user is authorized to make this request.
     *
     * @return bool
     */
    public function authorize()
    {
        return true;
    }

    /**
     * Get the validation rules that apply to the request.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function rules()
    {
        return [
           'title' => 'required|unique:posts|max:255', 
           'body' => 'required',
        ];
    }

    /**
     * Get the custom validation messages that apply to the request.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function messages()
    {
        return [
           'title.required' => 'Please enter title', 
           'title.max' => 'Please enter max value upto 255', 
           'body.required' => 'Please enter body',
        ];
    }

}

within your controller

use App\Http\Requests\YourFileRequest;


......


public function store(YourFileRequest $request) 
{
    //Your storing logic
}