TL; DR; As of version 10, Laravel does not have a built-in way to validate that a field is equal to a specific value. However, you can easily create a custom rule to accomplish this. Create scaffolding for the rule with artisan: php artisan make:rule...
How to use ValidationException::withMessages() method? Instead of manually creating a Validator, then adding some rules into it, and executing validate() method on the Validator, you can directly throw ValidationException with error messages in it. C...
When you look at the Validator source code in Laravel, you see that it either throws a ValidationException or returns an array of validated attributes: public function validate() { throw_if($this->fails(), $this->exception, $this); return $t...
