tamedevelopers/validator

PHP Form Validator is a small no-depencies library for PHP codes.

5.0.8 2025-09-22 00:36 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.0
• tamedevelopers/support: ^5.0

MIT

• Tame Developers

• php
• form
• Forms
• form validator
• php forms
• easy validation
• php form validator

README

Documentation

• Requirements
• Installation
• Instantiate
• Laravel Support
• Methods That Should Always Come First
• Global Configuration
• Csrf
  • Csrf Form Input
  • Csrf Token
• Usage
  • Error Type
  • Token
  • POST
  • GET
  • ALL
  • ANY
  • Rules
  • Validate
  • Save
  • Data Types
  • Operators
  • noInterface
  • Before
  • After
  • Has Error
  • Is Validated
• Reset Error
• Only
• Except
• Has
• Old
• Merge
• Only Data
• Except Data
• GetForm
• Get Message and Class
• Collection
• Collection Methods
• toObject
• toArray
• toJson
• Helpers
• Useful links

Requirements

• >= php 8.0+

Installation

Prior to installing validator package get the Composer dependency manager for PHP because it'll simplify installation.

composer require tamedevelopers/validator

Instantiate — Instantiate class using

• It's helper class can be called, using -- form()

require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use \Tamedevelopers\Validator\Validator;

$form = new Validator();

Laravel Support

• Now supports Laravel and with same Functionalities no different
  • use Tamedevelopers\Validator\Validator;

public function save(Request $request){

    $form = new Validator();
    or
    $form = form();
}

Methods That Should Always Come First

• All are Optional method
  • These methods are only mandatory on usage and should always come first before others.

Methods	Description
->errorType()	bool to format error's on display: single or multiple
->token()	bool to Enable or Disable csrf_token for each request
->post()	Convert Form request to POST only
->get()	Convert Form request to GET only
->all()	Convert Form request to any

$form->post()->rules([
    // 
]);

Global Configuration

• It's helper class can be called, using -- config_form()

Keys	Description
request	String POST|GET|ALL Default POST
error_type	Boolean true|false Default false
csrf_token	Boolean true|false Default true
class	Assoc Array error|success error class type to be returned on both success and failure

config_form(
    request       : 'POST',
    error_type    : true,
    csrf_token    : true,
    class         : [
        'error'     => 'alert alert-danger',
        'success'   => 'alert alert-success'
    ]
); 

Csrf

• Implementing Csrf (Cross-Site Request Forgery)
  • By default the form requires all request to have a token attached.
    • You can disable the usage with the config_form() Helper

Csrf Form Input

• This will create html input element with valid csrf token
  • It's a function and you don't need to echo
    • Use anywhere inside your HTML form

csrf();

<input type="hidden" name="_token" value="efef4c9360f26848f0d102b478e51859cfce4c9b197eb9d6473abfcaa2c6da38">

Csrf Token

• This will return the csrf token string

csrf_token();

USAGE

• All Methods of usage

Error Type

• Takes a param as bool Default is false
  • You can call separately or Call Before any other method, if intend to use.

Error	Description
false	Default Errors displayed one after another
true	This allow all errors to be displayed once, as an array

$form->errorType(false);

Token

• Takes a param as bool Default is false
  • Allow disability of csrf_token on each form request

Error	Description
false	Default Will disable csrf_token usage
true	This allow csrf_token per request only

$form->token(false);

POST

• Set the Form Request to POST
  • This will always override the config_form() settings

$form->post();

GET

• Set the Form Request to GET

$form->get();

All

• Will automatically detect if request type is GET\|POST and get it's data.

$form->all()->rules([
    // 
])

Any

• same as all

$form->any()->rules([
    // 
])

Rules

• By default only DATA TYPE and [INPUT_NAME] is required
  • Always seperate each indicator with a 'colon' : or 'pipe' |

DATA TYPE	INPUT_NAME	COMPARISON OPERATOR	VALUE TO COMPARE
string	: country	: ==	: 0
email	: email	:

$form->rules([
    "string|country|==|0"   => 'Please Select a Country',
    "email:email"           => 'Please enter a valid email address',
])

• HTML FORM Structure

<form>
    <select name="country">
        <option value="0">Select Country</option>
        <option value="NGA">Nigeria</option>
        <option value="USA">United States of America</option>
    </select>

    <input type="hidden" name="_token" value="749c345a1d407f29e777349f5e46a8d6d2cd51454b6719228b5ee28f94c30432">
    <input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Email Address">
</form>

Validate

• Takes an [optional] closure function as the param

$form->rules([
    "s:name" => 'Please enter a name',
])->validate(function($response){

    $response->param; //Collection of form data
    $response->getMessage(); //message property
});

Save

• Expects a closure function as the param
  • Message property will be empty string on success $response->message

$form->rules([
    "s:name" => 'Please enter a name',
])->save(function(){
    //on success
});

Data Types

• Supports 9 Data Flags type

Data types	abbr	Description
email	e	Email data validation
bool	b	Boolean data validation
string	s	String data validation
html	-	html CMS/Blog content validation
dev	-	dev CMS/Blog/Dev like content validation
raw	-	raw Collect content without validation
str_len	sl	String Length validation
enum	en	Enum Forms checkbox | radio or any form data that normally has no value when not checked
array	a	Array data validation
float	f	Float data validation
int	i	Int data validation
url	u	Url data validation

Operators

• Supports 10 operational statement

sign	Description
==	Equal to
===	Strictly Equal to
!=	Not Equal To
!==	Not Strictly Equal To
>	Greater than
>=	Greater than or Equal to
<	Less than
<=	Less than or Equal to
< or >	Less than or Greater than
< and >	Less than and Greater than

noInterface

• Expects a closure function as the param
  • have access to form data without any validation

$form->noInterface(function($response){

    if($response->has('amount')){
        // exec code
    }
});

Before

• Expects a closure function as the param
  • Will only execute code within when Request is [GET]
    • CSRF Token does'nt apply to this method

$form->rules([
    "s:name" => 'Please enter a name',
])->before(function($response){

    // execute code
});

After

• Expects a closure function as the param
  • Will always execute no matter the request method type
    • CSRF Token does'nt apply to this method

$form->after(function(){
    // execute code
});

Has Error

• Returns bool true\|false

$form->hasError();

Is Validated

• Returns bool true\|false, When Form has already been validated

$form->isValidated();

Reset Error

• Even if you're inside the success() method
• With this helper, you can be able to reset the class, to error class

->save(function($response){

    $availableUserAmount = 900;

    <!-- Lets say for instance, users have wallet balance and the form request has no error -->
    <!-- But you need to perform another error validator before you allow request to pass through -->
    <!-- Don't forget the add the "return;" key to stop any other code from executing -->


    if($response->amount > $availableUserAmount){
        $response->reset();
        $response->message = "Your wallet balance is too low, Please recharge before you can Subscribe to Plan!";        
        return;
    }

    // perform other request before
});

Only

• Takes a param as an array
  • keys of data only needed, from the form param

->save(function($response){
    //
    $data = $response->only(['password', 'username']);
});

Except

• Exact opposite of only() method

->save(function($response){
    
    $data = $response->except(['_token']);
});

Has

• Takes a param as string input name
  • Returns boolean as true|\false

->save(function($response){
    
    if($response->has('remeber_me')){
        // execute code
    }
});

Old

• Takes a param as string and return old inserted data
  • Second parameter is [optional] mixed data.
  • It's helper class can be called, using -- old()

$form->rules([
    "s:password" => 'Please enter a name',
    "s:retype_pass:!==:{$form->old('password')}" => 'Password mismatch, Please enter same password',
]);

• or

<input type="email" name="email" value="<?= old('email', 'default_value')>">

GetForm

• Return all submitted form data as an array

->save(function($response){

    $data = $response->getForm();
});

Merge

• Same as PHP function array_merge
  • Merge two array data together
  • Second data will always repalace any matched key data in the first array

->save(function($response){
    
    $data = [
        'name' => 'Lorem Name',
        'user_id' => rand(10000, 99999),
    ];

    $param = $response->merge($data, [
        'password' => md5($param['password'])
    ]);
});

Only Data

• Return only data passed from set of given array elements.

Keys	Data
array	Main data to select from

->save(function($response){

    $data = $response->onlyData(['email', 'password'], [
        'email'     => '[e-mail]', 
        '_token'    => md5('token'), 
        'age'       => 17,
        'password'  => 'test',
    ]);

// Only ['email', 'password'] will be returned.
});

Except Data

• Exact opposite of onlyData() method

Keys	Data
Keys are array	Main data to select from

->save(function($response){
    
    $data = $response->exceptData(['_token'], [
        'email'     => '[e-mail]', 
        '_token'    => md5('token'), 
        'password'  => 'test'
    ]);

// Return all array element, except ['_token']
});

Get Message and Class

key	Description
message	Message This convert all error messages and return as a string with <br>
class	Class name Class name on error and success

$form->getMessage();
$form->getClass();

Collection

• Forms param returns a Collection Class
  • This enable us access property as an object or array index

$form->rules([
    "string:country:==:0"   => 'Please Select a Country',
    "email:email"           => 'Please enter a valid email address',
])->save(function($response){

    $param = $response->param;


    $param->country;
    $param['country']

// As you can see, we're able to access data in both ways without errors
});

Collection Methods

Methods	Description
toArray()	array Convert items to array
toObject()	object Convert items to object
toJson()	string Convert items to json

toObject

• Takes a param as mixed data
  • Converts to an Object data

$form->toObject([
    'food' => 'Basmati Rice'
]);

toArray

• Takes a param as mixed data
  • Converts to an Array data

$form->toArray([
    'food' => 'Basmati Rice'
]);

toJson

• Takes a param as mixed data
  • Converts to an Json data

$form->toJson([
    'food' => 'Basmati Rice'
]);

Helpers

function	Description
old()	Inherit instance of (new Validator) old() method
form()	Return instance of (new Validator) class

Useful links

• @author Fredrick Peterson (Tame Developers)
• Lightweight - PHP Form Validator
• If you love this PHP Library, you can Buy Tame Developers a coffee
• Link to Youtube Video Tutorial on usage will be available soon