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ssteele/wp-typesanity
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Sanitize input by type when using WordPress

1.1.0(8y ago)118MITPHP

Since Mar 25Pushed 1y ago1 watchersCompare

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WP Typesanity
-------------

[](#wp-typesanity)

*A WordPress plugin that sanitizes user input by unit type*

### Description

[](#description)

WP Typesanity delivers a consistent experience when dealing with the various base PHP unit types in the WordPress environment. All input is stringified and filtered through `wp_kses` to remove markup and "evil scripts". You can pass a second parameter to `sanitize` to specify an expected unit type. Strings, integers, and floats are verified and expected data is kept. Unexpected data is set to an empty string. Now you are free to develop as fast as you like knowing the unit types you're dealing with are what you expect. See table below for a breakdown of unit type expectations:

inputstringintegerfloat'foo''foo''''''1''1''1''1''0''0''0''0''1.2''1.2''1''1.2''0.0''0.0''0''0.0''true''true''''''false''false'''''1'1''1''1'0'0''0''0'1.2'1.2''1''1.2'0.0'0.0''0''0.0'true'true'''''false'false'''''### Setup

[](#setup)

Navigate to your plugin via the terminal and issue:

`composer require ssteele/wp-typesanity`

### Documentation

[](#documentation)

Sanitize user input:

```
$translator = new UserInput();
$_POST = [
    'name' => 'Steve Steele',
    'id'   => 1,
    'gpa'  => 3.9,
];
$name = $translator->sanitize($_POST['name']);          // sanitize name

```

Pass in optional parameter \[s\]tring, \[i\]nteger, or \[f\]loat to ensure proper data type:

```
$name = $translator->sanitize($_POST['name'], 's');     // sanitize name as string
$id = $translator->sanitize($_POST['id'], 'i');         // sanitize id as integer
$gpa = $translator->sanitize($_POST['gpa'], 'f');       // sanitize gpa as float

```

Bulk sanitize an array of user input:

```
$post = $translator->sanitize($_POST);                  // sanitize all post elements
$post = $translator->sanitize($_POST, 'i');             // sanitize all post elements as integer
$post = $translator->sanitize($_POST, ['s', 'i', 'f']); // sanitize all post elements (of known order) against respective types

```

###  Health Score

31

—

LowBetter than 68% of packages

Maintenance31

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

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 ~0 days

Total

3

Last Release

2972d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b59771f462eb1c2bd705f807be8fc399e3d7ed5e7361c68ed9daabe793c19af8?d=identicon)[ssteele](/maintainers/ssteele)

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Top Contributors

[![ssteele](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2633534?v=4)](https://github.com/ssteele "ssteele (17 commits)")

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Tags

inputsanitizewordpress-plugintypewordpressinputsanitize

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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