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stahiralijan/request-caster
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This package intercepts Laravel Form Submits after successful validation and provides useful function and also casts the submitted form data accordingly e.g. Upper-case first Characters of Words, Capitalized them, and checkbox value "1" to boolean, JSON string to PHP Array conversions etc.

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Laravel RequestCaster
---------------------

[](#laravel-requestcaster)

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*Requirements: I've only tested this package with Laravel 5.5, please help me by testing this package in older versions of Laravel*

### Installation

[](#installation)

Install this package by typing the following command:

```
composer require stahiralijan/request-caster
```

### Usage

[](#usage)

Let's learn from an example:

You want to be able to save the submitted data but you don't want to make a mess in the controller method like this:

```
public function store(UserFormRequest $request)
{
    ...
    $first_name = ucfirst($request->first_name); // or ucfirst($request->get('first_name')
    $last_name = ucfirst($request->last_name); // or ucfirst($request->get('last_name')
    ...
    $user = User::create([
        ...
        'first_name' => $first_name,
        'last_name' => $last_name,
        ...
    ]);
    ...
    // after handling model stuff
    return redirect(route('users.index'))
            ->with('message'=>"User ({$user->first_name} {$user->last_name}) created!");
}
```

As you can see after a while you start to wondering what if there is a way you could automate this process so that your controller would look elegant and clean. With this package you can just do that:

### Step 1:

[](#step-1)

Use the `RequestCaster` Trait in your form request (in this case `UserFormRequest`):

```
...
use Stahiralijan\RequestCaster\Traits\RequestCasterTrait;
...
class UserFormRequest extends FormRequest
{
    use RequestCasterTrait;
    ...
}
```

### Step 2:

[](#step-2)

Define the Request attributes that are required to be casted:

```
class UserFormRequest extends FormRequest
{
    use RequestCasterTrait;

    protected $toUCFirstWords = ['first_name','last_name'];

    // More about this is explained below
    protected $joinStrings = ['fullname'=>' |first_name,last_name'];
    ...
}
```

### Finally

[](#finally)

...and that's all you needed to do, `first_name` and `last_name` are automatically capitalized. Also, you don't need to worry about your form data being getting dirty before validation because these castings will run after the validator validates the form data.

```
public function store(UserFormRequest $request)
{
    // first_name and last_name
    $user = User::create($request->all());
    ...
    // after handling model stuff
    return redirect(route('users.index'))
            ->with('message'=>"User ({$request->full_name}) created!");
}
```

### Available transformations / Casts

[](#available-transformations--casts)

The following casts are available:

- `$toLowerCaseWords`: Applies `strtolower()` to the selected field(s).
- `$toUpperCaseWords`: Applies `strtoupper()` to the selected field(s).
- `$toUCFirstWords`: Applies `ucwords()` to the selected field(s).
- `$toSlugs`: Applies `str_slug()` to the selected field(s).
- `$toIntegers`: Casts selected field(s) to `int`.
- `$toFloats`: Casts selected field(s) to `float`.
- `$toBooleans`: Casts selected field(s) to `bool`.
- `$toArrayFromJson`: Applies `json_decode()` to the selected fields.
- `$joinStrings`: Joins two or more fields and sets the result in new field specified in the array key, syntax: `$joinStrings = ['newField' => 'glue|field1,field2,...,fieldn']`

### Available methods

[](#available-methods)

- `collection(array $keys)` returns an object of `Illuminate\Support\Collection`
- `dd()` dumps and dies all the fields submitted in request
- `dump()` dumps all the fields submitted in request

You can use this method to get a collection (`Illuminate\Support\Collection`) of all the attributes

```
public function store(UserFormReques $request)
{
    $request->collection()->filter(function($item){
        ...
    });
    // or
    $request->collection()->map(function($item){
        ...
    });
}
```

### How to cast

[](#how-to-cast)

All of the properties are pretty straight forward, you define the attributes that needs to be casted like this:

```
// Convert the defined attributes to Upper-case
$toUpperCaseWords = ['product_code'];

// Upper-case the first letter of the words defined below
$toUCFirstWords = ['display_name'];

// Convert the following attributes into slugs
$toSlugs = ['product_name'];
```

You got the idea about the usage of the simple stuff, now one special transformation / caster

```
$joinStrings = ['fullname'=>' |first_name,last_name'];
```

- Here `fullname` will be a new attribute of the `FormRequest` which does not exists in the either the form or the FormRequest in the current context.
- Notice a space `' '` in the starting of value is the glue of the two attributes
- Next `|` is the separator between the glue and the desired attributes
- Next you add the attributes that needs to be glued.

If `first_name` is `Tahir` and `last_name` is `Jan` the output will be `Tahir Jan` according to the above rule, and can be accessed with `$request->fullname` or `$request->get('fullname')`

###  Health Score

30

—

LowBetter than 62% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity18

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

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 ~1 days

Total

3

Last Release

3088d ago

Major Versions

0.0.1 → 1.0.22018-01-12

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5305102?v=4)[Syed Tahir Ali Jan](/maintainers/stahiralijan)[@stahiralijan](https://github.com/stahiralijan)

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Top Contributors

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Tags

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