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Complete guide to Laravel's Validator, validation rules, Form Requests, and custom rules. Use when writing or reviewing validation logic, choosing the right validation rule, building Form Request classes, creating custom rules, or working with conditional/array/nested validation. Triggers on validate(), Validator::make(), Form Request, Rule::, Password::, File::, required, nullable, unique, exists, or any Laravel validation rule usage.

Full method API, decision guides, pitfalls, and patterns for Laravel's Collection and LazyCollection. Use when choosing the right collection method, writing or reviewing collection pipelines, or working with large datasets via cursor/lazy. Triggers on collect(), Collection, LazyCollection, map, filter, reduce, pluck, groupBy, each, cursor, or fluent array transformations in Laravel.