README

What is it?

A PHP library for sanitizing and validating user inputs. This library is based on https://www.phptutorial.net/ tutorial on how to make a custom input validator form scratch.

1. Installation
2. Supported input types
3. Usage

Installation

PHP versions 7.1 up to PHP 8.1 are currently supported.

The PECL mbstring extension is required.

It is recommended to use composer to install the library.

composer require deskola/simple-validator

You can also use any other PSR-4 compliant autoloader.

If you do not use composer, ensure that you also load any dependencies that this project has, such as giggsey/locale.

Supported input types

Below is the list of data type which will be sanitized against. Any data type not in the list will be result into an error

1. string
2. int
3. email
4. float
5. url

Supported Rules

Below are the rule that can be passed against an input

Usage

require_once  'vendor/autoload.php';
$validation = new Deskola\SimpleValidator\InputFilter();

$data = [
    'name' => 'Doe',
    'email' => 'john@email.com',
    'phone' => '2547********'
];

$iso = "KE";
$fields = [
    'name' => "string| required | max: 3",
    'email' => 'email| required | email',
    'phone' => 'string| required | iso:KE'
];

$response = $validation->filter($data, $fields);

print_r($response);

Success Output

Array
(
)

Error Output

Array
(
    [name] => The name must have at most 3 characters
    [email] => The email is not a valid email address
    [phone] => The phone must be a valid phone number
)