How to correctly instantiate the Iluminate class outside of laravel

Question

I have Eloquent working outside of Laravel with no problems. Now Im trying to use also the Validation class by:

<?php

namespace User;

use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use Illuminate\Validation\Validator;

class User extends Model {

    private $rules = array(
        'firstName' => 'required|min:2|max:50',
        'lastName'  => 'required|min:2|max:50',
    );

    public function validate($data)
    {
        $v = Validator::make($data, $this->rules);
        return $v->passes();
    }

}

Executing that code give me an error:

 Call to undefined method Illuminate\Validation\Validator::make()

That is correct since the method make is not on the class Validator but in his factory:

How can I correctly instantiate the Validation lib in order to get this working?

BTW, this is my composer.json:

{
    "require": {
        "slim/slim": "^2.6",
        "illuminate/database": "^5.1",
        "illuminate/validation": "^5.1"
    },
    "autoload": {
        "classmap": [
            "app/model"
        ]
    }

}

Answer 1

To get the validation package to work outside of Laravel, you'll also need the translation package.

So first create an instance of the translator, and then use that to make a validation factory.

Working example

<?php

/*
Required composer packages:
    illuminate/validation
    illuminate/translation
*/

/*
Translation language files directory is the same as with Laravel
    ./lang/en/validation.php
*/

require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';

// You need to specify where the translation files is
$test_translation_path = __DIR__.'/lang';
$test_translation_locale = 'en';

// Set up data for the validator
$test_input_data = ['field' => 'value'];
$test_input_rules = ['field' => 'required'];

$translation_file_loader = new Illuminate\Translation\FileLoader(new Illuminate\Filesystem\Filesystem, $test_translation_path);

$translator = new Illuminate\Translation\Translator($translation_file_loader, $test_translation_locale);

$validation_factory = new Illuminate\Validation\Factory($translator);

$validator = $validation_factory->make($test_input_data, $test_input_rules);

if ($validator->fails()) {
    die('Validation failed');
}

die('Validation passed!');