Custom attribute name in Ardent validation message

Question

I'm using Ardent in my Laravel project because I love its awesome model validation feature. Now I need to set human understandable attribute values in the validation error messages. I read that it can be accomplished by setting the $attributes array in the validation.php file (lang folder).

Since I'm coming from Yii I wonder if there is a way to specify the attribute name on a model basis and not globally in validation.php lang file.

For example, if I have two models, Employee and Company, both with a "name" attribute, I would like to set the display value of "name" attribute to "Employee name" and "Company name" respectively.

Answer 1

Give this a try. It's from the documentation on GitHub. I've never worked with Ardent, but it actually has quite good writeups on it.

class Employee extends \LaravelBook\Ardent\Ardent {
    public static $rules = array(
        'name' => 'Required|Alpha_Dash'
    );
    public static $customMessages = array(
        'required' => 'The Employee :attribute field is required.',
        'alpha_dash' => 'The Employee :attribute field must be Letters and Dashes only.'
    );
}

Since these custom messages are defined in the Employees class, they only apply to inputs from this class. You could do the same for the Company class:

class Company extends \LaravelBook\Ardent\Ardent {
    public static $rules = array(
        'name' => 'Required|Alpha_Dash'
    );
    public static $customMessages = array(
        'required' => 'The Company :attribute field is required.',
        'alpha_dash' => 'The Company :attribute field must be Letters and Dashes only.'
    );
}

I think that should work. I don't have any way to test it however. The other option is using custom rules, such as

'name' => 'Employee_Required|Employee_Aplha_Dash'

And defining those in Laravel's validation. But anyway, I hope that helps!