mitchellston/form_validation

This should help with validating POST and GET request in PHP!

1.0 2022-11-03 23:02 UTC

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Last update: 2025-06-24 20:27:03 UTC


README

This project aims to make validation for POST and GET requests easier. The way we get this done is by making the way validation work similar to the input tag of HTML.

Getting Started

These instructions will give you a working project with this library.

Prerequisites

Requirements for the software and other tools to build, test and push

  • PHP 7.4 or higher
  • Composer

Installing

A step by step series of examples that tell you how to get a development environment running.

Start a composer project

Composer init

Install the library with composer

Composer require mitchellston/form_validation

Add the library to the composers autoloader (in composer.json)

{
  "autoload": {
    "classmap": [
      "./vendor/mitchellston/"
    ]
  }
}

Update composer autoloader

Composer update

Demo

<?php
//Let's pretend the url is https://www.test.com?username=carl
require_once "../vendor/autoload.php";
use PostGetRequestValidation\Attributes;
use PostGetRequestValidation\Methods;
use PostGetRequestValidation\Types;
use PostGetRequestValidation\Validation;

$test = new Validation("username", Methods::GET, Types::TEXT, 
[
    Attributes::minLength => ["value" => 5, "errorMessage" => "A username needs to at least be 5 characters long!"]
]);
echo $test->getValue(); # carl
echo $test->getErrors(); # ["A username needs to at least be 5 characters long!"]
//Now you can send back the errors to your users

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details