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alexpts/php-typecast
====================

Simple type cast request data

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PHP typecast
============

[](#php-typecast)

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Cast types

#### Install

[](#install)

`composer require alexpts/php-typecast`

#### Example

[](#example)

```
$body = [
    'title' => 'Some',
    'user' => [
        'name' => 'Alex'
        'age' => '29',
        'isAdmin' = 'false',
    ],
    'friendsIds' => ['1', '2', '3', 4],
    'date' => '11-12-2017',
    'date2' => '11-12-2017',
];

$caster = new TypeCast(new DeepArray);

// shot format
$data = $caster->cast($body, [
    'friendsIds' => ['array', ['each' => ['int']]],
    'title' => ['string'],
    'user' => ['array'],
    'user.name' => ['string'],
    'user.age' => ['int'],
    'user.isAdmin' => ['bool'],
    'date' => ['datetime'],
    'date2' => ['datetime', ['datetimeFormat' => ['Y-m-d']]], // full format
]);

/*
$data ==== [
    'title' => 'Some',
    'user' => [
        'name' => 'Alex'
        'age' => 29,
        'isAdmin' = false,
    ],
    'friendsIds' => [1, 2, 3, 4],
    'date' => new \DateTime('11-12-2017'),
    'date2' => '2017-12-11',
];
*/
```

#### Types:

[](#types)

##### string

[](#string)

Set type to string

##### bool

[](#bool)

Set type to boolean

##### int

[](#int)

Set type to int

##### array

[](#array)

Set type to array

##### float

[](#float)

Set type to float

##### object

[](#object)

Set type to float

##### null

[](#null)

Set type to null

##### numbers

[](#numbers)

Remove all not number symbols from string

##### each

[](#each)

Convert each array item to describe types (see example above)

##### datetime

[](#datetime)

Convert value to \\DateTime object with default timezone

##### datetimeFormat

[](#datetimeformat)

Convert \\DateTime object to string via format method

#### Custom convert type

[](#custom-convert-type)

You can add custom convert via method on TypeCast service

```
public function registerType(string $name, callable $handler): self
```

###  Health Score

28

—

LowBetter than 54% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity11

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity62

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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 ~43 days

Total

5

Last Release

2989d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/31106536118e11bf9d0c9d7f467db5b534efa9c46ee76680b308f0c39d9a798c?d=identicon)[alexpts](/maintainers/alexpts)

---

Top Contributors

[![alexpts](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1306916?v=4)](https://github.com/alexpts "alexpts (12 commits)")

---

Tags

typetypescast

###  Code Quality

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