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A validator on top of Symfony validator.

Why to use?

Using Symfony validator with annotations or configuration (yml or xml) is just fine, but for simple cases, eg: validation of argument methods and throw exception is too verbose.

Eg:

Symfony way

use Symfony\Component\Validator\Validation;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\Type;

class Test {
    public function getByName($name)
    {
        $violations = Validation::createValidator()->validateValue(
            $name,
            new Type(array('type' => 'string'))
        );

        if (count($violations) != 0) {
          throw new \InvalidArgumentException((string) $violations);
        }
    }
}

EBTValidator way

use EBT\Validator\ValidatorBasicExtended;

class Test {
    public function getByName($name)
    {
        if (!ValidatorBasicExtended::isTypeString($name)) {
            throw new \InvalidArgumentException(ValidatorBasicExtended::getViolationsAsShortString());
        }
    }
}

Requirements

• PHP >= 5.3.3

Installation

The recommended way to install is through composer.

Just create a composer.json file for your project:

{
    "require": {
        "ebidtech/validator": "@stable"
    }
}

Tip: browse ebidtech/validator page to choose a stable version to use, avoid the @stable meta constraint.

And run these two commands to install it:

$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ composer install

Now you can add the autoloader, and you will have access to the library:

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

Usage

The validators are divided according to the Symfony Validator:

• ValidatorBasic
• ValidatorString
• ValidatorNumber
• ValidatorDate
• ValidatorCollection

For each one exists a Extended version (Eg: ValidatorBasicExtended), that adds convenience alias methods. It exists also a ValidatorExtended that mix validations.

Example of code

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING file.

Credits

• Ebidtech developer team, validator Lead developer Eduardo Oliveira (eduardo.oliveira@ebidtech.com).
• All contributors

License

Validator library is released under the MIT License. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.