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dsheiko/validate
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Validation library for testing primitive and complex types against a contract

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Dsheiko\\Validate
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Extendable validation library for testing primitive and complex types (including key-value arrays) against a contract

- [Installation](#installation)
- [Usage](#usage)

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

[](#installation)

Require as a composer dependency:

```
composer require "dsheiko/validate"
```

Highlights
----------

[](#highlights)

- Validators are dead simple to extend
- It's really easy to validate precondition/postcondition contracts
- Validator assertions are directly accessible
- Validation of nested arrays

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

- [Basic Usage](./wiki/basic-usage.md)
- [Provided Validators](./wiki/validators.md)
- [Validator Chain](./wiki/validator-chain.md)
- [Validation by Contract](./wiki/validation-by-contract.md)
- [Map Validation](./wiki/map-validation.md)
- [Custom Validators](./wiki/validator-interface.md)

Examples
--------

[](#examples)

### Design by Contract

[](#design-by-contract)

```