Laravel: validate an integer field that needs to be greater than another

Question

I have two fields that are optional only if both aren\'t present:

$rules = [
  \'initial_page\' => \'required_with:end_page|integer|min:1|digits_between:          


        

Answer 1

the question was asked in 2015 so most of the answers are also outdated now in 2019

i want to give answer which uses features provided by laravel team which is included in it's new version,

so as stated by @Sarpadoruk as of laravel 5.6 laravel added features in validation like gt,gte,lt and lte which means:

• gt - greater than
• gte - greater than equal to
• lt - less than
• lte - less than equal to

so using gt you can check that your end_page should be greater than your initial_page and your task becomes very easy now:

$rules = [
  'initial_page' => 'required_with:end_page|integer|min:1|digits_between: 1,5',
  'end_page' => 'required_with:initial_page|integer|gt:initial_page|digits_between:1,5'
];