respect/validation

The most awesome validation engine ever created for PHP

3.1.0 2026-03-02 13:46 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.5
• php-di/php-di: ^7.1
• psr/container: ^2.0
• respect/string-formatter: ^1.7
• respect/stringifier: ^3.0
• symfony/polyfill-intl-idn: ^1.33
• symfony/polyfill-mbstring: ^1.33

Requires (Dev)

• egulias/email-validator: ^4.0
• giggsey/libphonenumber-for-php-lite: ^8.13 || ^9.0
• mikey179/vfsstream: ^1.6
• nette/php-generator: ^4.1
• pestphp/pest: ^4.2
• phpbench/phpbench: ^1.4
• phpstan/extension-installer: ^1.4
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.0
• phpstan/phpstan-deprecation-rules: ^2.0
• phpstan/phpstan-phpunit: ^2.0
• phpunit/phpunit: ^12.5
• psr/http-message: ^1.0 || ^2.0
• ramsey/uuid: ^4
• respect/coding-standard: ^5.0
• sebastian/diff: ^7.0
• sokil/php-isocodes: ^4.2.1
• sokil/php-isocodes-db-only: ^4.0
• squizlabs/php_codesniffer: ^4.0
• symfony/console: ^7.4 || ^8.0
• symfony/translation: ^8.0
• symfony/var-exporter: ^6.4 || ^7.0 || ^8.0

Suggests

• ext-bcmath: Arbitrary Precision Mathematics
• ext-fileinfo: File Information
• ext-mbstring: Multibyte String Functions
• egulias/email-validator: Improves the Email rule if available
• giggsey/libphonenumber-for-php-lite: Enables the phone rule if available
• ramsey/uuid: Enables the UUID rule if available
• sokil/php-isocodes: Enable rules that validate ISO codes
• sokil/php-isocodes-db-only: Enable rules that validate ISO codes

MIT

• Respect/Validation Contributors

• validator
• respect
• validation

README

Respect\Validation

The most awesome validation engine ever created for PHP.

• Complex validation made simple: v::numericVal()->positive()->between(1, 255)->isValid($input).
• Advanced exception handling.
• More than 150 (fully tested) validators.

Learn More:

• Documentation
• How to contribute