<p>Recently, I was working on some <a href="https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/validation">Laravel validation</a> that used the array syntax to validate fields. For example:</p>
<pre><code class="language-php">$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
'database_options.name' => 'required|min:3|max:64',
]);</code></pre>
<p>However, in this case the error message that is returned looks like this:</p>
<pre><code>The database options.name field is required.</code></pre>
<p>Not ideal. The Laravel docs cover how to <a href="https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/validation#custom-error-messages">customize the error messages</a> for rules but not for the attribute names themselves.</p>
<p>It turns out there is a simple solution to this issue. You can override an attributes name by passing in an array of attribute names as the fourth parameter of the <code>Validator::make</code> method.</p>
<pre><code class="language-php">$attributes = [
'database_options.name' => 'database name',
];
$validator = Validator::make($request->all(), [
'database_options.name' => 'required|min:3|max:64',
], [], $attributes);</code></pre>
<p>Now the error message should appear like this:</p>
<pre><code>The database name field is required.</code></pre>
