Merge pull request #1461 from AustinW/master

Minor corrections to the documentation and using Input::json() with Validator

laravel/documentation/auth/usage.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ ## Salting & Hashing
 
 If you are using the Auth class, you are strongly encouraged to hash and salt all passwords. Web development must be done responsibly. Salted, hashed passwords make a rainbow table attack against your user's passwords impractical.
 
-Salting and hashing passwords is done using the **Hash** class. The Hash class is uses the **bcrypt** hashing algorithm. Check out this example:
+Salting and hashing passwords is done using the **Hash** class. The Hash class uses the **bcrypt** hashing algorithm. Check out this example:
 
 	$password = Hash::make('secret');
 

laravel/documentation/routing.md

@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ #### Registering a named route that points to a controller action:
 <a name="cli-route-testing"></a>
 ## CLI Route Testing
 
-You may test your routes using Laravel's "Artisan" CLI. Simple specify the request method and URI you want to use. The route response will be var_dump'd back to the CLI.
+You may test your routes using Laravel's "Artisan" CLI. Simply specify the request method and URI you want to use. The route response will be var_dump'd back to the CLI.
 
 #### Calling a route via the Artisan CLI:
 

laravel/validator.php

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ class Validator {
 	/**
 	 * Create a new validator instance.
 	 *
-	 * @param  array  $attributes
+	 * @param  mixed  $attributes
 	 * @param  array  $rules
 	 * @param  array  $messages
 	 * @return void
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ public function __construct($attributes, $rules, $messages = array())
 
 		$this->rules = $rules;
 		$this->messages = $messages;
-		$this->attributes = $attributes;
+		$this->attributes = (is_object($attributes)) ? get_object_vars($attributes) : $attributes;
 	}
 
 	/**