Laravel 4: Validate start and end date with before and after validation

Question

I want to validate two date fields in a form which is from_date and end_date. Need to check from_date is less than end_date.

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Answer 1

Anyhow,

I did as like this. So that even if any date in the form is empty that will auto fill and check the validation

$inputs = Input::all();
if(!empty($inputs))
{
    $default_date_arr = array('from_date' => date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-1 days')), 'to_date' => date('Y-m-d'));
    $inputs = $inputs+$default_date_arr;
}
$rules = array('from_date' => array('sometimes','date_format:"Y-m-d"', 'before:'.$to_date) ,
                        'to_date' => array('sometimes','date_format:"Y-m-d"', 'after:'.$from_date ) );
$validator = Validator::make($inputs,$rules);
if($validator->fails())
{ ... }

This may not be the answer for what i asked. But i needed just a way to finish this. May be will helpful for others.