Usage

The package uses laravel Form Builder to make validation rules work for both sides. Therefore you should use Form Builder. While opening form by using Form::open you can give $rules as second parameter:

    $rules = ['name' => 'required|max:100', 'email' => 'required|email', 'birthdate' => 'date'];
    Form::open(array('url' => 'foo/bar', 'method' => 'put'), $rules);
    Form::text('name');
    Form::text('email');
    Form::text('birthdate');
    Form::close(); // don't forget to close form, it reset validation rules

Also if you don't want to struggle with $rules at view files, you can set it in Controller or route with or without form name by using Form::setValidation($rules, $formName). If you don't give form name, this sets rules for first Form::open

    // in controller or route
    $rules = ['name' => 'required|max:100', 'email' => 'required|email', 'birthdate' => 'date'];
    Form::setValidation($rules, 'firstForm'); // you can also use without giving form name Form::setValidation($rules) because there is just one.
    
    // in view
    Form::open(array('url' => 'foo/bar', 'method' => 'put', 'name' => 'firstForm'), $rules);
    // some form inputs
    Form::close();

For rules which is related to input type in laravel (such as max, min), the package looks for other given rules to understand which type is input. If you give integer or numeric as rule with max, min rules, the package assume input is numeric and convert to data-rule-max instead of data-rule-maxlength.

    $rules = ['age' => 'numeric|max'];

The converter assume input is string by default. File type is not supported yet.

Validation Messages

Converter uses validation messages of laravel (app/lang/en/validation.php) by default for client-side too. If you want to use jquery validation messages, you can set useLaravelMessages, false in config file of package which you copied to your config dir.