How To Validate Date Format in Laravel?

As we know Laravel 6 provide date validation like date after, date_format, after_or_equal:date, before:date, before_or_equal:date etc. so in this example, I will show you how to use validation date after or equal today in laravel, how to use date_format validation in laravel, laravel validation date before or equal today etc.

You can see i listed following date validation that provided by laravel by default:

1. date
2. date_format
3. after:date
4. after_or_equal:date
5. before:date
6. before_or_equal:date

Now we will show one by one with example so, let’s see bellow controller example:

date Validation:

public function store(Request $request)

{

   

    $request->validate([

        'name' => 'required',

        'email' => 'required|email',

        'birth_date' => 'date'

    ]);

  

}

date_format Validation:

public function store(Request $request)

{

   

    $request->validate([

        'name' => 'required',

        'email' => 'required|email',

        'birth_date' => 'date_format:m/d/Y'

    ]);

  

}

after Validation:

public function store(Request $request)

{

   

    $request->validate([

        'name' => 'required',

        'email' => 'required|email',

        'start_date' => 'date_format:m/d/Y|after:tomorrow'

    ]);

  

}

after_or_equal Validation:

public function store(Request $request)

{

    $todayDate = date('m/d/Y');

   

    $request->validate([

        'name' => 'required',

        'email' => 'required|email',

        'start_date' => 'date_format:m/d/Y|after_or_equal:'.$todayDate

    ]);

  

}

before Validation:

public function store(Request $request)

{

   

    $request->validate([

        'name' => 'required',

        'email' => 'required|email',

        'end_date' => 'date_format:m/d/Y|before:start_date',

        'start_date' => 'date_format:m/d/Y|after:tomorrow'

    ]);

   

}

before_or_equal Validation:

public function store(Request $request)

{

   

    $request->validate([

        'name' => 'required',

        'email' => 'required|email',

        'end_date' => 'date_format:m/d/Y|before_or_equal:start_date',

        'start_date' => 'date_format:m/d/Y|after:tomorrow'

    ]);

  

}

Most of we use start date and end date validation as like bellow i written example:

Start Date and End Date Example:

public function store(Request $request)

{

   

    $request->validate([

        'name' => 'required',

        'email' => 'required|email',

        'start_date' => 'date_format:m/d/Y',

        'end_date' => 'date_format:m/d/Y|after:start_date'

    ]);

   

}

I hope it can help you…

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