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windwalker/validator
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Windwalker Validator package

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Windwalker Validator
====================

[](#windwalker-validator)

Windwalker Validator is a simple interface to help up validate strings.

Installation via Composer
-------------------------

[](#installation-via-composer)

Add this to the require block in your `composer.json`.

```
{
    "require": {
        "windwalker/validator": "~3.0"
    }
}
```

Simple Validate Process
-----------------------

[](#simple-validate-process)

```
use Windwalker\Validator\Rule\EmailValidator;

$validator = new EmailValidator;

$validator->validate('sakura@flower.com'); // bool(true)

$validator->validate('sakura'); // bool(false)
```

### Available Validator Rules

[](#available-validator-rules)

- AlnumValidator
- BooleanValidator
- ColorValidator
- CreditcardValidator
- EmailValidator
- EqualsValidator
- IpValidator
- NoneValidator
- PhoneValidator
- RegexValidator
- UrlValidator
- CallbackValidator
- CompareValidator
- PhpTypeValidator

Regex Validator
---------------

[](#regex-validator)

```
use Windwalker\Validator\Rule\RegexValidator;

$validator = new RegexValidator('^[a-zA-Z0-9]*$', 'i');

$validator->validate('abc_123:978'); // bool(false)
```

Equals Validator
----------------

[](#equals-validator)

```
use Windwalker\Validator\Rule\EqualsValidator;

$validator = new EqualsValidator('ABC');

$validator->validate('ABC'); // bool(true)
```

Strict Mode:

```
$validator = new EqualsValidator(123, true);

$validator->validate('123'); // bool(false)
```

Error Message
-------------

[](#error-message)

```
$validator->setMessage('This string is not valid');

if (!$validator->validate('sakura'))
{
    throw new \Exception($validator->getError());
}
```

Create Your Own Validator
-------------------------

[](#create-your-own-validator)

```
use Windwalker\Validator\AbstractValidator;

class MyValidator extends AbstractValidator
{
	public function test($string)
	{
		return (bool) strlen($string);
	}
}

$validator = new MyValidator;

$validator->validate('foo');
```

Extends Regex Validator
-----------------------

[](#extends-regex-validator)

```
use Windwalker\Validator\Rule\RegexValidator;

class MyRegexValidator extends RegexValidator
{
	protected $modified = 'i';
	protected $regex = '[a-zA-Z]';
}
```

Composite
---------

[](#composite)

Match all.

```
use Windwalker\Validator\ValidatorComposite;

$validator = new ValidatorComposite([
    AlnumValidator::class,
    new PhoneValidator
]);

$validator->validate('1a2b'); // false
$validator->getResults(); // [true, false]
```

Match one.

```
use Windwalker\Validator\ValidatorComposite;

$validator = new ValidatorComposite([
    AlnumValidator::class,
    new PhoneValidator
])->setMode(ValidatorComposite::MODE_MATCH_ONE);

$validator->validate('1a2b'); // true
$validator->getResults(); // [true, false]
```

Use methods:

```
$validator->validateOne($value);
$validator->validateAll($value);
```

###  Health Score

33

—

LowBetter than 75% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity74

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 ~27 days

Recently: every ~76 days

Total

81

Last Release

2094d ago

Major Versions

2.1.9 → 3.0-beta2016-07-03

3.x-dev → 4.x-dev2020-08-24

PHP version history (4 changes)2.0.0-beta1PHP >=5.3.10

3.2PHP >=5.5.9

3.5PHP >=7.1.3

4.x-devPHP >=8.0.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1639206?v=4)[Simon Asika](/maintainers/asika32764)[@asika32764](https://github.com/asika32764)

---

Top Contributors

[![asika32764](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1639206?v=4)](https://github.com/asika32764 "asika32764 (44 commits)")

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