Laravel form binding - laravel

Question

Hi I am using laravel form binding along with
jqBootstrapValidation . In order to successfuly have the validate the input fields, I must pass something like "required" (without quotes) in the tag . Can you please let me know how can I achieve this ?
FYI .. the minlength works fine but the required does not work.
For example one of input elements currently looks as such
{{Form::text('username', null, array('class'=> 'form-control tip', 'data-toggle'=> 'tooltip', 'data-placement'=> 'bottom', 'title'=>'Enter your username that you have been using till now. This is a compulsory field.','placeholder'=>'Username ( must be filled )','minlength'=>'2'))}}
Thanks

Answer 1

You can't, take a look at the source code that builds the attributes:
protected function attributeElement($key, $value)
{
if (is_numeric($key)) $key = $value;
if ( ! is_null($value)) return $key.'="'.e($value).'"';
}
You'll always get a <attribute>=<name>, what you can test is to use it this way:
{{ Form::text('username',
null,
array( 'class'=> 'form-control tip',
'data-toggle'=> 'tooltip',
'data-placement'=> 'bottom',
'title'=>'Enter your username that you have been using till now. This is a compulsory field.',
'placeholder'=>'Username ( must be filled )',
'minlength'=>'2',
0 => 'required'
)
)
}}
It will build a tag
<... required="required" ...>
And it might work for jqBootstrapValidation.
Otherwise you'll have to create those inputs manually.

Answer 2

I've used this with the HTML attributes required="required" and also required="" works too. Changing the example they provide and adding in the Laravel Blade tags gives
<form class="form-horizontal" novalidate>
<div class="control-group">
<label class="control-label">Type something</label>
<div class="controls">
{{ Form::text('name', null , array('required' => '')) }}
<p class="help-block"></p>
</div>
</div>
{{ Form::submit('submit')}}
</form>
This worked fine and produced the error "This is required". I swapped in your form field and added in the
'required' => ''
to the end of your attribute array and that too worked just fine. Alternatively you could instead add in
'required' => 'required'
as jqBootstrapValidation picks up either. Good luck.