How to Use a PHP Validation Library to Validate Strings that May Represent Different Types of Values Using the Package General Validator: Validate text strings of different types of values

Documentation

Synopsis

General string validation. Currently Email address, string length, password, url and country code validation. Easily extendable with others.

Code Example

$validator = PasswordValidator(3); // Minimum password score 3
if ($validator->validate("my-very-long-password-is-good")) {
	// Good, your password is strong enough
}

API Reference

Classes:

Validator() // Parent for all classes
EmailValidator()
UrlValidator()
CountryCodeValidator()
LengthValidator(int $minLength, int $maxLength)
PasswordValidator(int $minScore) // Score from 0 (weakest) to 4 (strongest)

Methods:

Validator::validate(string) // Pass in the test string and returns bool
Validator::load() // Shorthand class loader
Validator::getValue() // Returns the output of the validator, null if no output
Validator::getError() // Returns the error from the validator, null if no error
StringValidator::setMin(int) // Update the min string length
StringValidator::setMax(int) // Update the max string length
PasswordValidator::setMinScore(int) // Update the min password score required for a pass```

Tests

Tests are provided in test/ValidatorTest.php and can be run with PHPUnit

License

BSD 2-Clause License - See LICENSE