README

What is this

This repository will be a set of additional rules for the brilliant data validation library called Respect\Validation

Install

Require php: >= 8.0

composer require akawalko/respect-validation-rules

Usage

After installing the package in the place where you want to use my rules, you must use the autoloder and import classes from the namespace.

require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Respect\Validation\Exceptions\NestedValidationException;
use Respect\Validation\Rules\AllOf;
use Respect\Validation\Validator as v;
use Respect\Validation\Factory;

To use my rules you need to overwrite the default factory so that it knows in which namespace to look for new rules.

Factory::setDefaultInstance(
    (new Factory())
        ->withRuleNamespace('RespectValidationRules\\Rules')
        ->withExceptionNamespace('RespectValidationRules\\Exceptions')
);

Rules

DynamicAttr

When you have an object that uses dynamic properties with the help of magic methods like __get() and __set() you can't use a rule Attribute. It will not work. The solution is my custom method DynamicAttr.

Let's look at this short example:

$dynamicObject = new ClassWithMagicMethods();
$dynamicObject->firstname = 'John Wesley';
$dynamicObject->lastname = 'Connor';
$dynamicObject->age = 36;

$validator = new AllOf(
    v::dynamicAttr(
        'firstname',
        v::stringType()
            ->alpha()
            ->length(2, 10)
    ),

    v::dynamicAttr(
        'lastname',
        v::stringType()
            ->length(null, 190)
        false // property can be undefined
    ),

    v::dynamicAttr(
        'age',
        v::intVal()
            ->min(18)
    )
);

try {
    $validator->assert($dynamicObject);
    echo "valid\n";
} catch (NestedValidationException $exception) {
    echo "not valid\n";
    print_r($exception->getMessages());
}

The full code of the example can be found here: examples/example_01.php