Laravel Form Requests: Clean Controllers

Use Form Requests to keep validation logic out of controllers.

16 January 20261 min readLaravel اقرأ بالعربية

Clean controllers with Form Requests:

Create Form Request

php artisan make:request StorePostRequest

Define Rules

php

class StorePostRequest extends FormRequest
{
    public function authorize(): bool
    {
        return $this->user()->can('create', Post::class);
    }

    public function rules(): array
    {
        return [
            'title' => 'required|max:255',
            'content' => 'required',
        ];
    }
}

Use in Controller

php

public function store(StorePostRequest $request)
{
    Post::create($request->validated());
}

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