Laravel 4 - how to use a unique validation rule / unique columns with soft deletes?

Question

Assume, you are trying to create a new user, with a User model ( using soft deletes ) having a unique rule for it\'s email address, but there exists a trashed user within th

Answer 1

Laravel offers "Additional Where Clauses".

My url validation rule (from the update model method) looks like this:

$rules['url'] = 'required|unique:pages,url,'.$page->id.',id,deleted_at,NULL';

This means that the url must be unique, must ignore the current page and ignore the pages where deleted_at id not NULL.

Hope this helps.