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acid-solutions/input-sanitizer
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Input sanitizer to convert strings to booleans, numbers etc.

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Input Sanitizer
===============

[](#input-sanitizer)

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Often when receiving data from a client in an API or from a form request, you'll find yourself running the same data cleaning operations such as transforming `'false'` to the boolean `false`, converting `''` to `null` etc. This can be a pain.

This package simplifies the process drastically.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

- Install the package with composer :

```
composer require acid-solutions/input-sanitizer
```

Laravel users
-------------

[](#laravel-users)

- Laravel 5.5+ uses Package Auto-Discovery, so doesn't require you to manually add the ServiceProvider and the Facade alias. If you don't use auto-discovery or if you use a Laravel 5.4- version, add the package service provider in the `register()` method from your `app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php` :

```
// input sanitizer
// https://github.com/ACID-Solutions/input-sanitizer
$this->app->register(AcidSolutions\InputSanitizer\Laravel\InputSanitizerServiceProvider::class);
```

- Then, add the package facade alias in the `$aliases` array from the `config/app.php`config file.

```
'aliases' => [
    '...',
    'InputSanitizer' => AcidSolutions\InputSanitizer\Laravel\Facades\InputSanitizer::class
]
```

When this provider is booted, you'll gain access to a `InputSanitizer` facade, which you may use in your controllers.

```
public function index()
{
    $inputs = $request->all();
    $sanitizedInputs = \InputSanitizer::sanitize($inputs);
}
```

Without Laravel
---------------

[](#without-laravel)

InputSanitizer ships with native implementations of the bootloader and facade. In order to use it import class.

```
// import the package facade
use Acid\InputSanitizer\Native\Facades\InputSanitizer;

// sanitize your entries
$input = ['false', '3', ''];
$sanitizedInput = InputSanitizer::sanitize($input);

// produces [false, 3, null]
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

The only public method in the package is `sanitize($input, $default = null, $jsonDecodeAssoc = false)`

Call the sanitizer as following:

```
$data = ['null', 'true'];
$sanitized = InputSanitizer::sanitize($data);
```

`$input` can be a string, boolean, number, array, object or JSON string

Examples of the cleaned data:

```
''      => null
'null'  => null
'false' => false
'true'  => true
'on'    => true
'3'     => 3
'5.07'  => 5.07
```

When using arrays and objects, the method will sanitize each element in the given input and return an array (or object) with the cleaned values.

`$default` can be used to return a default value if the resulting cleaned input is `null` or `false`

Example:

```
InputSanitizer::sanitize('', 'hello');
// will return 'hello'
```

`$jsonDecodeAssoc` is used for decoding JSON.
See php [json\_decode documentation](http://php.net/manual/en/function.json-decode.php)

```
$jsonDecodeAssoc = true // default is false
$input = json_decode($input, null, $jsonDecodeAssoc);
// will decode your json as associative array (and as object if false)

```

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

- [Arthur Lorent](https://github.com/Okipa)
- [Daniel Lucas](https://github.com/daniel-chris-lucas)

###  Health Score

30

—

LowBetter than 64% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity19

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 51.4% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~195 days

Total

3

Last Release

3105d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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Tags

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