Laravel 5 1 date format validation allow two formats

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I use following date validation for incoming POST request.

'trep_txn_date' => 'date_format:"Y-m-d H:i:s.u"'

This will only allow a date of this kind i.e. 2020-09-30 15:59:44.8

I also want to allow date without the TIME e.g. 2020-09-30, which when sent to mysql db will automatically store as 2020-09-30 00:00:00.0

Is there a way I can do this using a Laravel's existing validation rules. Is there a way to define multiple formats in date_format rule something like below.

'trep_txn_date' => 'date_format:"Y-m-d H:i:s.u","Y-m-d"' //btw this didn't work.

Thanks,

Sep 30, 2020 in Laravel by kartik
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Hello @kartik,

The date_format validator takes only one date format as parameter. In order to be able to use multiple formats, you'll need to build a custom validation rule. Luckily, it's pretty simple.

You can define the multi-format date validation in your AppServiceProvider with the following code:

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider  
{
  public function boot()
  {
    Validator::extend('date_multi_format', function($attribute, $value, $formats) {
      // iterate through all formats
      foreach($formats as $format) {

        // parse date with current format
        $parsed = date_parse_from_format($format, $value);

        // if value matches given format return true=validation succeeded 
        if ($parsed['error_count'] === 0 && $parsed['warning_count'] === 0) {
          return true;
        }
      }

      // value did not match any of the provided formats, so return false=validation failed
      return false;
    });
  }
}

You can later use this new validation rule like that:

'trep_txn_date' => 'date_multi_format:"Y-m-d H:i:s.u","Y-m-d"' 

Hope it helps!!

Thank You!!

answered Sep 30, 2020 by Niroj
• 82,880 points

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