Validation Rule Update

August 8, 2025 · AI Conversations

User

$request->validate([
'email' => 'required|email',
'salutation' => 'required',
'first_name' => 'required',
'last_name' => 'sometimes',
'industry' => 'required',
'company_name' => 'required',
'coach_name' => 'required|unique:clients,coach_name',
'terms' => 'accepted',
],[
'coach_name.unique' => 'The coach name has already been taken. Please choose a different name.',
'terms.accepted' => 'You must agree to the Terms, Privacy, and Fees.',
]);
unique will be first and last name not coach_name we will remove this ffield

Assistant

To validate uniqueness based on a **combination of `first_name` and `last_name`** instead of `coach_name`, and also **remove the `coach_name` field**, you can adjust your validation like this:

### ✅ Updated Validation Code:

$request->validate([
    'email' => 'required|email',
    'salutation' => 'required',
    'first_name' => 'required',
    'last_name' => 'required', // change from 'sometimes' to 'required' for uniqueness check
    'industry' => 'required',
    'company_name' => 'required',
    'terms' => 'accepted',
], [
    'terms.accepted' => 'You must agree to the Terms, Privacy, and Fees.',
]);

Then, after basic validation, manually check for uniqueness:

### ✅ Manual Unique Check (after validation):

$exists = AppModelsClient::where('first_name', $request->first_name)
    ->where('last_name', $request->last_name)
    ->exists();

if ($exists) {
    return back()->withErrors(['first_name' => 'A client with this first and last name already exists.'])->withInput();
}

### 🔄 Summary of Changes:
– Removed `coach_name` field.
– Combined uniqueness check for `first_name` + `last_name`.
– Used manual uniqueness logic after Laravel's validator to handle complex conditions.

Let me know if the combination should also include other fields like `email` or `company_name` for uniqueness.

User

$exists = Client::where('first_name', $request->first_name)
->where('last_name', $request->last_name)
->exists();
this will check if user_type will be 2

Assistant

To check if a client exists **with matching `first_name`, `last_name`, and `user_type = 2`**, you can update the query like this:

$exists = Client::where('first_name', $request->first_name)
    ->where('last_name', $request->last_name)
    ->where('user_type', 2)
    ->exists();

This ensures the uniqueness check is scoped to clients with `user_type = 2`. If you want to return a custom validation error if a match is found, here’s how you can handle it:

if ($exists) {
    return back()->withErrors([
        'first_name' => 'A client with this first and last name already exists.',
    ])->withInput();
}

Let me know if `user_type` should be dynamic or if it needs to come from the request as well.

Validation Rule Update

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