Laravel Request Sanitizer

Easily sanitize your form data

This package provides an easy way and a fluent interface to sanitize form data.

• The request sanitizer allows you to easily manipulate your form data before any validation or treatment.
• It's also compatible with Laravel's FormRequest object.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require mawuekom/laravel-request-sanitizer

Usage

Syntax is similar to the way rules are added to a Form Request.

class StoreUserDataRequest extends FormRequest
{
     use InputSanitizer;
     
     protected $sanitizers = [
        'name' => [
            Uppercase::class,
        ],
        'first_name' => [
            CapitalizeEachWords::class,
        ],
        'phone_number' => [
            RemoveNonNumeric::class
        ],
     ];
}

Available Sanitizers

Sanitizer	Description
Capitalize	Capitalizes the first character of a string
CapitalizeEachWords	Capitalizes each first character of a new word in a string
Cast	Casts a variable into the given type.
EscapeHTML	Remove HTML tags and encode special characters from the given string.
FilterVars	Simple PHP filter_var sanitizer
Lowercase	Converts a string to lowercase
RemoveNonNumeric	Removes any non numeric character
StripTags	Strip HTML and PHP tags using php's strip_tags()
Trim	Trims a string using php's trim()
TrimDuplicateSpaces	Replaces duplicate spaces with a single space.
Uppercase	Converts a string to uppercase

- Contributions are appreciated!

FilterVars usage

The FilterVars sanitizer acts as a wrapper of the default PHP filter_var function. It accepts the same (optional) parameters as the original function. Both parameters can be either an array or string type:

 {
    protected $sanitizers = [
        'last_name' => [
            FilterVars::class => [
                'filter' => FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING,
                'options' => FILTER_FLAG_STRIP_BACKTICK
            ]
        ]
    ];
 }

Please check PHP Documentation for more information on filter_vars.

Writing your own Sanitizer

You can write your own sanitizer by implementing the SanitizerContract interface, which requires only one method.

namespace Mawuekom\RequestSanitizer\Contracts;

/**
 * Request sanitizer contract
 *
 * Class DataManagerRepo
 *
 * @package Mawuekom\RequestSanitizer\Contracts
 */
interface SanitizerContract
{
    /**
     * Sanitize an input and return it.
     *
     * @param $input
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function sanitize($input);
}

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.