How can I check if the value is null or valid value? Required or present rule doesn't fit in this case, because it fails on null or cancels further checks.

[FragsterAt]

dump(Validator::make(["foo" => ""], ["foo" => "nullable|present|date"])->passes());
dump(Validator::make(["foo" => ""], ["foo" => "nullable|string|min:3"])->passes());

etc

Required fails on null value, present succeed on any values but other checks are not executed on empty strings.

I want to pass data direct to database with nullable columns and now I have errors like Invalid datetime format: 1292 Incorrect date value: '' for column instead of validation errors

There is closed issues #52262 #50626 about this problem

[ghost]

Custom validation rule or 'sometimes|nullable|string|min:3'. For date you need to pass a format.

[FragsterAt]

Custom validation rule or 'sometimes|nullable|string|min:3'. For date you need to pass a format.

  dump(Validator::make(["foo" => ""], ["foo" => "sometimes|nullable|string|min:3"])->passes());

passes but must fail

reason is in

framework/src/Illuminate/Validation/Validator.php

Line 777 in b18f333

if (is_string($value) && trim($value) === '') {

that skip all rules on empty strings