Laravel 5.2 not showing form validation errors

Question

This is weird. I've been googling all day trying to find a solution for my problem and most of solutions don't work for me due to different versions or different request - controller handling.

What's happening is this.

I have a form:

<div class="form-group">
    Name *
    {!! Form::text('name', '', ['class'=>'form-control', 'placeholder'=>'Required field']) !!}
</div>

And a Request:

class ContactFormRequest extends Request
{

    public function authorize()
    {
        return true;
    }


    public function rules()
    {
        return [
            'name' => 'required|max:64',
            'email' => 'required|email|max:128',
            'message' => 'required|max:1024',
        ];
    }
}

I'm leaving the name field blank so it fails validation, and it should return to the contact form page and show the errors:

@if(count($errors) > 0)
        <div class="alert alert-danger">
            <ul>
            @foreach($errors->all() as $error)
                <li>{{ $error }}</li>
            @endforeach
            </ul>
        </div>
@endif

It shows nothing! If I vardump the $errors variable, I get this:

object(Illuminate\Support\ViewErrorBag)[161]
  protected 'bags' => 
    array (size=0)
      empty

If I fill the form field properly it successfully sends me to the success page and everything works perfect. All I need now is to make this error thing work properly :S

Thank you in advance!

Are your controllers bounded to a route part of the __web middleware group__? If not, try to bound them, but I can't see nothing wrong in your code... — Hammerbot, Feb 14 '16 at 02:16
I assume your controller's method includes ContactFormRequest in the parameter list? Do you redirect back to the form yourself or do you rely on validator's default action? — Denis Mysenko, Feb 14 '16 at 02:17
Yes. All my routes are grouped with the Middleware 'web'. And my controller method in its parameter has ContactFormRequest as the type! — Juan Bonnett, Feb 14 '16 at 02:31
array (size=0) empty - So weird, and I'm leaving the required fields blank, it redirects back, but shows no errors! :S — Juan Bonnett, Feb 14 '16 at 02:43
It could be, because you are missing a call for validation. There should be something like this in your controller: `if ($validator->fails()) {` — Axalix, Feb 14 '16 at 02:45
If I give you an URL with my controller snippet, could you help me place it please? https://codeshare.io/m1CJb — Juan Bonnett, Feb 14 '16 at 02:49

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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This is a breaking problem with the 5.2 upgrade. What's happening is the middleware which is responsible for making that errors variable available to all your views is not being utilized because it was moved from the global middleware to the web middleware group.

There are two ways to fix this:

1-In your kernel.php file, you can move the middleware \Illuminate\View\Middleware\ShareErrorsFromSession::class back to the protected $middleware property.

2-You can wrap all your web routes with a route group and apply the web middleware to them.

Route::group(['middleware' => 'web'], function() {
    // Place all your web routes here...
});

See this
laravel-5-2-errors-not-appearing-in-blade

edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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answered Feb 14 '16 at 05:25

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Thank you sir for your answer. I saw this answer in that post, but all my routes are inside the WEB Middleware group! Still not working. – Juan Bonnett Feb 15 '16 at 05:30
your web middelware is empty and error not show???? – paranoid Feb 15 '16 at 05:42
Ok I found the problem. It was actually very stupid. The POST route was outside the web middleware group – Juan Bonnett Feb 15 '16 at 05:47
In latest laravel version 5.2.41, the middleware web is thrown out. – Mirza Vu Jul 28 '16 at 02:48
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@paranoid OMG!! I love you, I've been searching for an answer for the past 6 hours. Thank you man – Jonathan Jun 06 '20 at 03:12

Laravel 5.2 not showing form validation errors

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