Laravel Password & Password_Confirmation Validation

Question

I\'ve been using this in order to edit the User Account Info:

$this->validate($request, [
    \'password\' => \'min:6\',
    \'password_confirmation\'          


        

Answer 1

It should be enough to do:

$this->validate($request, [
    'password' => 'sometimes,min:6,confirmed,required_with:password_confirmed',
]);

Make password optional, but if present requires a password_confirmation that matches, also make password required only if password_confirmed is present