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antriver/laravel-unique-email-validator
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Laravel validation rule to check an email address is really unique.

1.0.0(5y ago)010MITPHP

Since Dec 31Pushed 5y ago1 watchersCompare

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Laravel Unique Email Validator
==============================

[](#laravel-unique-email-validator)

This provides a Laravel validation rule that improves upon the built in 'unique' rule when preventing the same email address being used more than once.

Some email providers (Gmail) allow you to use + in the email address to create 'aliases'. For example if your email address is  you can also use:

-
-
-

and they all work. The normal 'unique' rule would allow these as they are all different. This rule sees these all as the same and will disallow using the same '' account.

Some email providers (Gmail) also allow you to place periods anywhere before the @ sign in the email address and these will all work. For example if your email address is  you can also use:

-
-

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

Your MySQL server must support the non-greedy regex operator. This has been tested with MySQL 8 and MariaDB 10.2 so those versions or newer should work.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require antriver/laravel-unique-email-validator

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
    $this->validate(
        $request,
        [
            // Check for other use of the same email address in the users.email column.
            'email' => [new \Antriver\LaravelUniqueEmailValidator\UniqueEmailRule('users', 'email')],
        ]
    );
```

Like the original unique rule you can specify certain rows should be excluded. This is useful when updating a user and that should not reject the user's existing registered email address:

```
    $this->validate(
        $request,
        [
            'email' => [new \Antriver\LaravelUniqueEmailValidator\UniqueEmailRule('users', 'email', ['id' => 123])],
            // Where 123 is the 'id' of the existing user.
        ]
    );
```

###  Health Score

23

—

LowBetter than 26% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity5

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity53

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2009d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Top Contributors

[![antriver](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/251159?v=4)](https://github.com/antriver "antriver (8 commits)")

###  Code Quality

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