Month: November 2016

The way Laravel outputs error messages is to include the form input name, which I find most of the time is not ideal.  The easy way to customise this is pretty easy on a small scale.  This may  not suit larger forms.

In the blade file break each $error down into its own output. Put this where the error block will show.

@if (count($errors) > 0)
     <div class="alert alert-danger">
            <ul>
                 @if ($errors->has('firstname'))
                      <li>A first name needs to be entered.</li>
                  @endif
                  @if ($errors->has('lastname'))
                       <li>A last name needs to be entered.</li>
                  @endif
             </ul>
      </div>
@endif

Here are the elements from the form.

<div class="form-group">
   <label for="title" class="muted col-sm-3 control-label">Given Name</label>
   <div class="col-sm-9">
       <input type="text" name="firstname" class="form-control" id="firstname" placeholder="First Name" >
    </div>
</div>

<div class="form-group">
    <label for="lastname" class="muted col-sm-3 control-label">Last Name</label>
    <div class="col-sm-9">
         <input type="text" name="lastname" class="form-control" id="lastname" placeholder="Last Name" >
     </div>
</div>

The lastname and firstname are the name elements of the form and are attributes used in the error message.