Laravel validation exists where NOT

Question

Based on the documentations. Exists can have 4 parameters:

exists:table,id,where,0

The question is, What if I wanted it to be where is not. Lik

Answer 1

You can use unique

Example

'email' => 'unique:users,email_address,NULL,id,account_id,1'

In the rule above, only rows with an account_id of 1 would be included in the unique check.

http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/validation#rule-unique