laravel-5

Release Notes 19
Simple Controller Request Validation
The Laravel 5 base controller now includes a ValidatesRequests trait. This trait provides a simple
validate method to validate incoming requests. If FormRequests are a little too much for your
application, check this out:
1 public function createPost(Request $request)
2 {
3 $this->validate($request, [
4 'title' => 'required|max:255',
5 'body' => 'required',
6 ]);
7 }
If the validation fails, an exception will be thrown and the proper HTTP response will automatically
be sent back to the browser. The validation errors will even be flashed to the session! If the request
was an AJAX request, Laravel even takes care of sending a JSON representation of the validation
errors back to you.
For more information on this new method, check out the documentation.
New Generators
To complement the new default application structure, new Artisan generator commands have been
added to the framework. See php artisan list for more details.
Configuration Cache
You may now cache all of your configuration in a single file using the config:cache command.
Symfony VarDumper
The popular dd helper function, which dumps variable debug information, has been upgraded to use
the amazing Symfony VarDumper. This provides color-coded output and even collapsing of arrays.
Just try the following in your project:
1 dd([1, 2, 3]);