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somnambulist/validation
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A re-write of rakit/validation providing Laravel like validation as a standalone library

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Somnambulist Validation
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This is a re-write of [rakit/validation](https://github.com/rakit/validation), a standalone validator like Laravel Validation. In keeping with rakit/validation, this library does not have any other dependencies for usage.

Please note that the internal API is substantially different to rakit/validation.

Jump to [rules](#available-rules)

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 8.3+
- ext/mb-string

Installation
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[](#installation)

Install using composer, or checkout / pull the files from github.com.

- composer require somnambulist/validation

Usage
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[](#usage)

There are two ways for validating data with this library: using `make` to make a validation object, then validate it using `validate`; or use `validate`.

For example:

Using `make`:

```