title: Form not submitting even after I have removed "required" field - Laravel
body: <p>I have about 8 fields (4 required and 4 optional) in my form and I have tested every field with "required" and other forms of validation rules. </p>
  
  <p>Now I have removed the "required" rule in the optional ones but when I submit the form, the optional fields won't let me, the error I get on each is <strong>"The field is invalid"</strong>. </p>
  
  <p>Can someone please tell what needs to be done? All I want is 4 to be required and other 4 to be optional. Also, I did place other validation rules in the optional ones like "min, max and regex".</p>
  
  <pre><code>         `$this-&gt;validate($request,[
          'firstname' =&gt; 'required|regex:/^[a-zA-Z ]*$/|min:2|max:255',
          'lastname' =&gt; 'regex:/^[a-zA-Z ]*$/|min:2|max:255',
          'email' =&gt; 'required|email|max:255|unique:clients',
          'telephone' =&gt; 'regex:^\+?([0-9]{2})-?([0-9]{3})-?([0-9]{6,7})*$^',
          'job_title' =&gt; 'required|regex:/^[a-zA-Z. ]*$/|min:7|max:255',
          'nationality' =&gt; 'regex:/^[a-zA-Z ]*$/|min:4|max:255',
          'dob' =&gt; 'required|regex:/^[a-zA-Z0-9,. ]*$/|max:255',
          'interests' =&gt; 'regex:/^[a-zA-Z,. ]*$/|min:10|max:255',
          ]);
          `
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As you can see, the ones not having required field are the ones not letting me submit the form.</p>