Laravel Postal Code Validation Laravel Package

• Add support for Laravel 11

• Update Dutch validation pattern
• Update Bahraini validation pattern

• Add support for Laravel 10

• Add support for Laravel 9

• Update Cambodia validation pattern

• Added support for PHP 8
• Fixed validation passing prematurely if postal_code_for or postal_code_with only referenced fields in an array

• Fixed validation getting bypassed on postal_code_for and postal_code_with when only some referenced fields were present

• Fixed postal_code_for rule failing when none of the referenced fields were present
• Deprecated the postal_code_for rule
• Added postal_code_with rule, which is a drop-in replacement for postal_code_for
• Added deprecation warnings for upcoming 4.0 release

• Fixed error when validation receives null (#23)

• Added support for Laravel 8 (#21)

• Dropped support for PHP 7.1 (breaking change)
• Dropped support for Laravel 5.1 - 5.4 (breaking change)
• Added support for manually overriding validation patterns
• Added exceptions when no arguments are passed to the validation rules (breaking change)
• Added PostalCodes facade
• Renamed Axlon\PostalCodeValidation\Validator to Axlon\PostalCodeValidation\PostalCodeValidator and changed its methods (breaking change)

• Update Taiwan validation pattern

• Added support for Laravel 7

• Fixed validation of countries with complex patterns #13
• Fixed rules not being loaded if the validator was resolved before the service provider was called
• Fixed format generator (dev-only)

• Added support for Laravel 6

• Updated postal_code rule, which longer accepts references to request parameters as arguments (breaking change)
• Updated fluent API methods (breaking change)
• Removed :formats error message placeholder (breaking change)
• Replaced the validation engine with an internal engine based on Google's Address Data Service (potentially breaking change)
• Added postal_code_for rule, which accepts references to request parameters as arguments
• Added :examples error message placeholder
• Added support for referencing request parameters inside an array (for example addresses.*.country)
• Added support for referencing request variables while using a custom validator class

• Fixed replacer being empty if empty input was passed

• Added error message replacer for :countries and :formats placeholders

• Lowered PHP requirement from 7.1.3 to 7.1.0
• Removed exception thrown when an invalid country is passed, instead validation now fails

• Added Laravel 5.8 support
• Removed Laravel 5.0 support
• Increased minimum required PHP version from 7.0.0 to 7.1.3

• Fixed an error when null was passed to the validator
• Added doc blocks
• Added Scrutinizer and StyleCI integration

• Other fields in the request can now be used as country code to check against
• Removed useless files from dist

• Fixed PHPUnit issues on older versions of Laravel

• Country codes are no longer case sensitive
• Documentation improvements
• Minor code improvements

• Initial release

Fixed

• Fixed a TypeError when a postal_code_with field holds a value that is not a string

Removed

• Laravel 11 and below are no longer supported
• Lumen is no longer supported
• The postal_code_for rule has been removed, use postal_code_with instead
• The PostalCodes facade has been removed
• Overriding validation patterns is no longer supported
• Validating outside of Laravel's validator is no longer supported