What causes a validation error in Laravel?

Question

Laravel

I'm fighting for the dead hour. Tell.
There is a form validation function:

public function registration()
  {
      if($_POST['type'] === 'company'){
        $validator = Validator::make(
          array('email' => 'email|unique:users'),
          array('name' => 'required|min:3|max:20'),
          array('lastname' => 'required|min:3|max:20')
          );

      }elseif($_POST['type'] === 'user'){
        $validator = Validator::make(
          array('email' => array('email','unique:users')),
          array('name' => array('required')),
          array('lastname' => array('required', 'min:3', 'max:20'))
        );

      }

      if ($validator->fails()) {
          $messages = $validator->messages();
          print_r($messages);
          print_r($_POST);
          return View::make('user.registration_error', array('type' => $_POST['type'], 'data' => $_POST, 'error' => $messages));
        }
         echo 'lol';

  }

There is a form:

<form action="/registration" method="post" class="form-horizontal">
    <fieldset>
      <legend>Регистрация для компаний</legend>
      <div class="control-group">

        <label class="control-label" for="input01">Имя</label>
        <div class="controls">
          <input name="name" type="text" class="input-xlarge" id="input01">
        </div><br>

        <label class="control-label" for="input01">Фамилия</label>
        <div class="controls">
          <input name="lastname" type="text" class="input-xlarge" id="input01">
        </div><br>

        <label class="control-label" for="input01">E-mail</label>
        <div class="controls">
          <input name="email" type="email" class="input-xlarge" id="input01">
          <p class="help-block">На него прийдет код подтверждения.</p>
        </div>

        <label class="control-label" for="input01">Компания</label>
        <div class="controls">
          <input name="company-name" type="text" class="input-xlarge" id="input01">
          <p class="help-block">Название компании которую вы представляете</p>
        </div>
          <input name="type" type="hidden" value="company">
        <label class="control-label" for="input01">Пароль</label>
        <div class="controls">
        <input name="pass" type="password" class="input-xlarge" id="input01">
        </div> <br>

        <div class="controls">
          <input name="pass_confirmation" type="password" class="input-xlarge" id="input01">
          <p class="help-block">Еще раз</p>
        </div>

        <button class="btn btn-primary" type="submit">Зарегестрироваться</button>
      </div>
     </fieldset>
  </form>

The problem is that the Name field is always in error, it does not check further. Leave an empty field or filled in, it is always with an error.

Answer 1

Instead $_POST['type']use Input::get('type')
Not correctly use Validator.
Example of correct usage:

$validator = Validator::make(Input::all(), array(
    'email' => 'email|unique:users',
    'name' => 'required|min:3|max:20',
    'lastname' => 'required|min:3|max:20'
));

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