Laravel 4 Displaying user friendly validation errors - laravel

Question

I have a controller that validates some input and when validation fails it passes the errors to my view:
public function updateAccount(){
$user = Auth::user();
$validation = User::validateAccount(Input::all());
if( $validation->passes() ){
$user->fill(Input::all());
$user->save();
return Redirect::back();
} else {
return Redirect::back()
->withErrors($validation)
->withInput();
}
}
The code for User::validateAccount(); looks like this:
public static function validateAccount($input){
$rules = [
'website' => 'url'
];
$validation = Validator::make($input, $rules);
return $validation;
}
In my view I display the errors like this:
#if($errors->any())
<div class="errors">
<ul>
#foreach($errors->all() as $error)
<li>{{ $error }}</li>
#endforeach
</ul>
</div>
#endif
However, instead of the default, user friendly error output I get this. For a URL validation error it displays:
validation.url
How do I get Laravel to display the default, user friendly error messages that are configured in app/lang/en/validation.php?
So for a URL error this should be:
"The :attribute format is invalid."

Answer 1

You need to define the custom message.
Change
public static function validateAccount($input){
$rules = [
'website' => 'url'
];
$validation = Validator::make($input, $rules);
return $validation;
}
to
public static function validateAccount($input){
$messages = [ 'url' => 'You must give a valid url'];
$rules = [ 'website' => 'url' ];
$validation = Validator::make($input, $rules, $messages);
return $validation;
}
OR
You can add this to your app/lang/en/validation.php file:
'custom' => array(
'website' => array(
'url' => 'You must give a valid url',
),
),