How to give Laravel 6 validation attributes a custom name for error message?

Question

I am trying to change the way my errors display when my Laravel form is not filled in correctly. Currently, when I get an error. It displays like this.

name mag niet groter zijn dan 255 karakters.

Because this language is Dutch, I would like to change the 'name' attribute to 'naam'. I have tried to change the $attributesNames like this but unfortunately it did not work.

$attributeNames = [
   'name' => 'Naam'   
];

This is what my validation function currently looks like.

/**
 * @return array
 */
public function validateCampaign() {
    // name needs to render as 'Naam'

    return request()->validate([
        'name' => 'required|max:255',
    ]);
}

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 12 '20 at 08:55

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As it turns out. I needed to edit the 'attributes' array in my resources/lang/xx/validation.php file.

It turns out like this:

'attributes' => [
    'name' => 'Naam'
]

answered Feb 12 '20 at 08:55

Niels Bosman

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 12 '20 at 08:53

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hey i found similar issue like you maybe this will help

maybe like this

    $attributeNames = array(
        'name' => 'Naam',  
    );

    $validator = Validator::make ( request()->all(), [
        'name' => 'required|max:255',
    ]);
    $validator->setAttributeNames($attributeNames);

and you can see more about this in laravel documentation

answered Feb 12 '20 at 08:53

good112233

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This is not really a clean way of doing this.This because I would like to keep my code as simple as possible. – Niels Bosman Feb 12 '20 at 08:57
sure,i just share what i found – good112233 Feb 12 '20 at 09:00

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 12 '20 at 09:06

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There is an easy way to set up custom error message:

public function validateCampaign() {
    // name needs to render as 'Naam'

    return request()->validate([
        'name' => 'required|max:255',
    ],[
        'name.required' => 'Namm is required',
        'name.max' => 'Namm must be max 255 length'
    ]);
}

answered Feb 12 '20 at 09:06

Martin

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What I was looking for was only changing the attribute name, not the whole error message. – Niels Bosman Feb 12 '20 at 09:10
I know it is much more than you need but maybe some people in future will need to change entire message as well. – Martin Feb 12 '20 at 09:23

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 11 '22 at 16:13

Combining previous examples, you could do this...

/**
 * @return array
 */
public function validateCampaign() {
    // name needs to render as 'Naam'

    return request()->validate(
        ['name' => 'required|max:255'],  // rules
        [],                              // messages
        ['name' => 'Naam']               // custom attributes
    );
}

The Laravel 6 implementation details of the validate function can be found here.

How to give Laravel 6 validation attributes a custom name for error message?

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