Validate email array in Laravel 5.2 wth custom validator

AppServiceProvider.php

<?php
/**
 * This service provider handles a few custom validation rules.
 *
 * PHP version 5.5.9
 * @package    Snipe-IT
 * @version    v3.0
 */

namespace App\Providers;

use Validator;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
    /**
     * Custom email array validation.
     * 
     * This is used when you are collecting a comma-separated list of email addresses 
     * (which is obviously a string), but need to validate each email address individually.
     * First we break the string out into an array, and then invoke the built-in Laravel 
     * validation rule for email.
     * 
     * This basically creates a new named validation rule, called email_array. I can 
     * now use this as I would any other Laravel validation rule. For example, if I were 
     * handling validation through a Laravel form request, I could do:
     * 
     * public function rules()
     * {
     *   return [
     *    ...
     *    "alert_email"   => 'email_array',
     *    ...
     *    ];
     * }
     * 
     * 
     * @author [A. Gianotto] [<[email protected]>]
     * @since [v1.0]
     * @return void
     */
    public function boot()
    {

        // Email array validator
        Validator::extend('email_array', function($attribute, $value, $parameters, $validator) {
            $value = str_replace(' ','',$value);
            $array = explode(',', $value);

            foreach($array as $email) //loop over values
            {
                $email_to_validate['alert_email'][]=$email;
            }

            $rules = array('alert_email.*'=>'email');
            $messages = array(
                 'alert_email.*'=>trans('validation.email_array')
            );

            $validator = Validator::make($email_to_validate,$rules,$messages);

            if ($validator->passes()) {
                return true;
            } else {
                return false;
            }

        });
    }

    /**
     * Register any application services.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function register()
    {
        //
    }
}

Thanks for sharing this

This took me about two weeks to figure out. Thank you!

there is a typo in:
$value = str_replace(' ','',$value);
just add a comma:
$value = str_replace(' ',',',$value);