laravel-requests.php

<?php

...

$rules = [
    'name' => 'required',
    'age' => 'required|numeric|min:18',
    'email' => 'email',
];

// $data = $request->validated(); ['name' => 'Scott', 'age' => 66, 'email' => 'scott@god.com']
// What if I need an aditional field that doesn't require validation?
// $data['status'] = $request->get('status'); ?

// What I currently do
$rules = [
    'name' => 'required',
    'age' => 'required|numeric|min:18',
    'email' => 'email',
];

$allowedData = [
    'name',
    'age',
    'email',
    'status',
];

$request->only($allowedData); // ['name' => 'Scott', 'age' => 66, 'email' => 'scott@god.com', 'status' => 'av'];

// Utopia
$rules = [
    'name' => 'required',
    'age' => 'required|numeric|min:18',
    'email' => 'email',
    'status' => ':string:', // Cast, Modifiers, Sanitizers, Zend like?
];

// $data = $request->validated(); ['name' => 'Scott', 'age' => 66, 'email' => 'scott@god.com', 'status' => 'av'];