Validation (unique) while editing in Laravel

Question

Maybe this has already been asked, but I did not find it.

I have a validation in my post edit form:

$request->validate([
    'title' => 'required|unique:posts|max:255',
    'content' => 'required',
]);

The problem is that if the user wants to change only the content, then the header validation (unique) will work and he will not be able to confirm the changes without changing the title.

How can this be solved?

UPD. I found this, but is it posible to implement it without creating a new RequestController?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65843842/validation-unique-while-editing-in-laravel

Answer 1

In your case while updating the post you can ignore the current post id you are updating by specifying that id in the unique rule

$request->validate([
    'title' => 'required|unique:posts,title,'.$post->id.'|max:255',
    'content' => 'required',
]);