It's time to start writing about the new features in Laravel 5.2! You'll notice that many of these features are quicker and easier to learn and write up, so it may seem that it's a smaller release. But many of the features in 5.2 will have a big impact on the simplicity and convenience of the code we write day-to-day.

A quick introduction to HTML Form arrays

Form array validation simplifies the process of validating the somewhat abnormal shape of data HTML forms pass in when the array syntax is used. If you're not familiar with it, a common use case is when you allow a user to add multiple instances of the same type on one form.

Let's imagine you have a form where a user is adding a company, and as a part of it they can add as many employees to the company as they want. Each employee has a name and a title.

Here's our HTML; imagine that we have some JavaScript that creates a new "employee" div every time you press the "Add another employee" button so they user can add as many employees they want.

<form>
    <label>Company Name</label>
    <input type="text" name="name">

    <h3>Employees</h3>
    <div class="add-employee">
        <label>Employee Name</label>
        <input type="text" name="employee[1][name]">
        <label>Employee Title</label>
        <input type="text" name="employee[1][title]">
    </div>
    <div class="add-employee">
        <label>Employee Name</label>
        <input type="text" name="employee[2][name]">
        <label>Employee Title</label>
        <input type="text" name="employee[2][title]">
    </div&gt