Custom request validators for Multiple arrayed inputs - laravel

Question

I have 1 form, with multiple inputs. each section can have multiple inputs, I want to create a Form Validator inside Requests for they, but don't know how to do it... This is currently how I am doing it:
public function postCreateResume(Request $request, Resume $resume, Education $education)
{
/*
* begin a transaction, because we
* are doing multiple queries
*/
DB::beginTransaction();
/*
* first we must create the resume, then we
* can use the id for the following rows
*/
$this->validate($education, [
'resume_title' => 'required',
'expected_level' => 'required',
'salary' => 'required',
'work_location' => 'required',
'year_experience' => 'required',
'about' => 'required',
]);
$resume->name = $request['resume_title'];
$resume->work_level = $request['expected_level'];
$resume->salary = $request['expected_salary'];
$resume->country = $request['work_location'];
$resume->total_experience = $request['year_experience'];
$resume->about = $request['about'];
$resume->save();
// a user can have multiple educations on their cv
foreach($request->input('education') as $education){
$this->validate($education, [
'institution' => 'required',
'degree' => 'required',
'year_begin' => 'required',
'year_finish' => 'required',
'about' => 'required',
]);
// passed our checks, insert
$education->resume_id = $resume->id;
$education->user_id = Auth::user()->id;
$education->institute = $education['institution'];
$education->degree = $education['degree'];
$education->summary = $education['about'];
$education->started = $education['year_begin'];
$education->ended = $education['year_finish'];
if(!$education->save()){
DB::rollback();
return redirect()->back()->withErrors("There was an error creating this resume")->withInput();
}
}
// a user can have multiple employment on their cv
foreach($request->input('experience') as $employment){
$this->validate($employment, [
'company' => 'required',
'title' => 'required',
'country' => 'required',
'year_begin' => 'required',
'year_finish' => 'required',
'notes' => 'required',
]);
// passed our checks, insert
$employment->resume_id = $resume->id;
$employment->user_id = Auth::user()->id;
$employment->name = $employment['title'];
$employment->company = $employment['company'];
$employment->country = $employment['country'];
$employment->started = $employment['year_begin'];
$employment->ended = $employment['year_finish'];
$employment->summary = $employment['notes'];
if(!$employment->save()){
DB::rollback();
return redirect()->back()->withErrors("There was an error creating this resume")->withInput();
}
}
return redirect()->back()->withSuccess("You have created a resume")->withInput();
}
Notice I have the validate inside each of the foreach in case the user has chosen more than 1 (in this example) work experience, or education, what I am trying to do is move the $this->validate inside the Requests folder, how can I achieve this?
I am using a foreach because I can have unlimited sections, see the image as to why;

Answer 1

Since laravel 5.4 you can pass arrays to the validator itself, for exaple
<input name="myarray[0]['test'] type="text">
Can now be validated like so
$this->validate($request, [
'myarray.*.test' => 'required'
]);
https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/validation#validating-arrays
Validating array based form input fields doesn't have to be a pain. For example, to validate that each e-mail in a given array input field is unique, you may do the following:
$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
'person.*.email' => 'email|unique:users',
'person.*.first_name' => 'required_with:person.*.last_name',
]);
Likewise, you may use the * character when specifying your validation messages in your language files, making it a breeze to use a single validation message for array based fields:
'custom' => [
'person.*.email' => [
'unique' => 'Each person must have a unique e-mail address',
]
],