Laravel 4 Validation - Nested Indexed Arrays?

Question

I have an array of various things...

$foo = [];
$foo[\'stuff\'][\'item\'][0][\'title\' => \'flying_lotus\'];
$foo[\'stuff\'][\'item\'][1][\'title\' =>          


        

Answer 1

In addition to @Cryode answer, and for my laravel 5 issue.

my form has an database id index. so my form fields have the index

$foo['stuff']['item'][8]['title' => 'flying_lotus'];
$foo['stuff']['item'][12]['title' => 'various_cheeses'];
$foo['stuff']['item'][23]['title' => 'the_career_of_vanilla_ice'];

i used foreach to reach my goal

foreach($request->input()['stuff']['items'] as $key => $value){
    $rules["stuff.items.{$key}.title"] = 'required';
}

and the custom error messages

foreach($request->input()['stuff']['items'] as $key => $value){
    $messages["stuff.items.{$key}.title.required"] = 'Each Title is required...';
}

and validate

Validator::make($request->input(), $rules, $messages);