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cantescape/validation
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A community-driven validation API

18PHP

Since Mar 28Pushed 11y ago2 watchersCompare

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CantEscape / Validation
=======================

[](#cantescape--validation)

A new community-driven validation API in PHP

### What I'd like to do

[](#what-id-like-to-do)

This is something I pretty much overnight while my newborn couldn't sleep and figured that I may as well share it here, if you'd like to contribute whether it's to the application itself or the validators rules any and all input is welcome through a pull request

### Installation

[](#installation)

By Composer
`composer require cantescape/validation @dev`

### Getting Started

[](#getting-started)

See the Wiki

###  Health Score

20

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LowBetter than 14% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

 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.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f2601f4cb851c398f486098521a51967da8572b9e6031b15e82798e220ecb760?d=identicon)[jamesk322](/maintainers/jamesk322)

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Top Contributors

[![jamesk322](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/260736?v=4)](https://github.com/jamesk322 "jamesk322 (4 commits)")

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