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laracasts/validation
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Easy validation for Laravel applications.

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> If you are using Laravel 5.0, this package is unnecessary. Instead, leverage the new form request classes to perform your validation.

Install With Composer
---------------------

[](#install-with-composer)

```
"require": {
    "laracasts/validation": "~1.0"
}
```

And then, if using Laravel (not required), add the service provider to `app/config/app.php` in the `providers` array.

```
'Laracasts\Validation\ValidationServiceProvider'
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Here's an example. Imagine that you need validation for a login form. First, create an object to contain the necessary rules:

```