I am facing a problem with laravel custom validation message, here is what I have:
$rules = [
'first_name' => 'required|alpha|min:2',
'last_name' => 'required|alpha|min:2',
'email' => 'required|email|unique:users,email,' . Input::get('id') . ',id',
'password' => 'alpha_num|between:6,12|confirmed',
'password_confirmation' => 'alpha_num|between:6,12',
'address' => 'regex:/^[a-z0-9- ]+$/i|min:2',
'city' => 'alpha|min:2',
'state' => 'alpha|min:2|max:2',
'zip' => 'numeric|min:5|max:5',
'phone' => 'regex:/^\d{3}\-\d{3}\-\d{4}$/',
];
$messages = [
'unique' => 'The :attribute already been registered.',
'regex' => 'The :attribute number has to be formated : xxx-xxx-xxxx.',
];
Now if there is a problem with the address or the phone number since both have regex validation rule , the error message will be : The :attribute number has to be formated : xxx-xxx-xxxx, How could I have custom message for each different one ??