displaying specific error messages in laravel 4.2 - laravel

Question

hello i have this form and i have validations for it. I have already finished doing the validations for in inside my controller and i can already display the error messages in my view but i wanted the error message to be beside the input area where it came from
here is my code in the view
{{ Form::open(array('url' => 'addParentAccnt')) }}
<div class="form-group">
{{ Form::label('username', 'Username') }}
{{ Form::text('username', Input::old('username'), array('class' => 'form-control','placeholder' => 'Insert username')) }}
</div>
<div class="form-group">
{{ Form::label('fName', 'First Name') }}
{{ Form::text('fName', Input::old('fName'), array('class' => 'form-control','placeholder' => 'Insert First Name')) }}
</div>
<div class="form-group">
{{ Form::label('lName', 'Last Name') }}
{{ Form::text('lName', Input::old('lName'), array('class' => 'form-control','placeholder' => 'Insert Last Name')) }}
</div> {{ Form::submit('Proceed to Next Step', array('class' => 'btn btn-primary')) }}
{{ Form::close()}}
in the bottom of my view i added this code to display the error messages
#if ($errors->any())
<ul>
{{ implode('', $errors->all('<p style="color:red" class="error">:message</p>')) }}
</ul>
#endif
the code inside my controller is this
$rules = array
(
'username' => 'required|min:10|max:50',
'fName' => 'required|alpha|min:1|max:80',
'lName' => 'required|alpha|min:1|max:80',
);
$validator = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules, $messages);
if ($validator->fails())
{
return Redirect::to('createPa')
->withErrors($validator)
->withInput(Input::except('password'));
}
else
{
//do something
}

Answer 1

Change your view as following:
<div class="form-group">
{{ Form::label('username', 'Username') }}
{{ Form::text('username', Input::old('username'), array('class' => 'form-control','placeholder' => 'Insert username')) }}
{{ $errors->first('username', ':message') }}
</div>
<div class="form-group">
{{ Form::label('fName', 'First Name') }}
{{ Form::text('fName', Input::old('fName'), array('class' => 'form-control','placeholder' => 'Insert First Name')) }}
{{ $errors->first('fName', ':message') }}
</div>