How to manage unique_with combination of three columns but to allow two

[shone83]

I manage to set not to allow these three combination: name, last_name and telephone. The problem is when I want to enter same name and last_name but without telephone (when telephone is empty or null), I need to allow that but in this code it doesn't:

'name'  => 'unique_with:add_members, last_name, telephone_1',

When I make one column unique I use nullable function but here it doesn't work...

[felixkiss]

I think your options are:

• If telephone is not present in your data array at all, you can declare the unique_with rule for the telephone attribute like 'telephone_1' => 'unique_with: add_members, name, last_name'. It will only validate if it is present.
• If telephone is empty or null, you can check and either remove it from the data array or only add the rule if it is not empty e.g. if (empty($data['telephone_1']) { unset($data['telephone_1']); }

[shone83]

You are right, this helps:

'telephone_1'   => 'nullable|unique_with:add_members, name, last_name',

Thanks ;)