--- title: Laravel Validated DTO Package: Why/When You Would Need It? description: A walkthrough of the Laravel Validated DTO package, which combines form request validation and data transfer objects into a single class. The package solves... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/laravel-validated-dto-package-why-when-you-would-need-it--pmu8beexe twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Laravel Validated DTO Package: Why/When You Would Need It? | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of the Laravel Validated DTO package, which combines form request validation and data transfer objects into a single class. 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The package solves the problem of repeated data transformations across controllers, jobs, and services by providing a single source of truth with typed properties, casting (booleans, enums, Carbon dates), nested DTOs, default values, and field name mapping. Five concrete bugs are demonstrated that can occur when relying solely on form requests without DTO casting, such as treating dates as strings, missing enum casts, and boolean type errors. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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