Comments for Vance Lucas

Comment on Valitron: The Simple Validation Library That Doesn’t Suck by Lock

Lock — Fri, 10 May 2013 22:28:42 +0000

I’ve tried all the validation libraries you mentioned, and I agree they all have their problems. Respect makes it a pain to get out error messages in any sane format, and Symfony returns errors in a zero indexed array, making it difficult to find the error for a particular field. Just setting up Laravel’s validator standalone is insane too, dependency after dependency needs to be injected just to get a working validator.

The only problem I can find with Valitron so far is that the error message customisation needs some work. It would be nice if I could label my fields and use them in the error messages. If it could do that it would be a huge improvement.

Comment on Valitron: The Simple Validation Library That Doesn’t Suck by Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 03 May 2013 17:09:33 +0000

…when did PHP get [...] array constructors? It’s trying harder to be Perl all the time.

Comment on Valitron: The Simple Validation Library That Doesn’t Suck by Vance Lucas

Vance Lucas — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:43:23 +0000

I just checked out Yii validation, and I really don’t see the resemblance. The syntax is different and it’s tied to the Model. It’s also not an independent component that is useable outside the Yii framework, so I think the comparison is a little flawed.

Comment on Valitron: The Simple Validation Library That Doesn’t Suck by Alexander Makarov

Alexander Makarov — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:45:06 +0000

API looks very similar to validation in Yii framework.

Comment on Valitron: The Simple Validation Library That Doesn’t Suck by Vance Lucas

Vance Lucas — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:16:26 +0000

Alexandre,

Sorry if I am mis-representing your library here. None of the examples I looked at on your project’s GitHub page showed a usage example for validating multiple fields at once – they were all one at a time, which the library seems to be geared for. I will update my post with better wording.

Comment on Valitron: The Simple Validation Library That Doesn’t Suck by Alexandre Gaigalas

Alexandre Gaigalas — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:10:36 +0000

Hey Vance.

I’m the author of Respect\Validation. What did you mean by “validating values one at a time like Respect Validation requires you to do”?

Your sample can be rewritten in Respect\Validation as:

try {
v::attribute(‘name’)
->attribute(‘email’, v::email()))
->attribute(‘date_start’, v::date()->min(‘today’))
->assert($_POST);
echo “Yay! We’re all good!”;
} catch (Exception $e) {
print_r($e->findMessages(array(‘name’, ‘email’, ‘date_start’));
}

Thank you!

Comment on Valitron: The Simple Validation Library That Doesn’t Suck by Petah

Petah — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 02:51:06 +0000

Respect validation does not require you to run validation one at a time.

For example you can run validations like this: v::key(‘email’, v::email())->key(‘name’, v::alnum()->noWhitespace()->length(1, 15))->assert($_POST)

Comment on Valitron: The Simple Validation Library That Doesn’t Suck by Vance Lucas

Vance Lucas — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:55:22 +0000

Aura.Filter looks nice, though slightly more verbose than Valitron. It didn’t come up in my searches for “validation” on Packagist otherwise I may have just used it instead of making this. Regardless, here we are.

Comment on Valitron: The Simple Validation Library That Doesn’t Suck by Paul M. Jones

Paul M. Jones — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:32:46 +0000

Jeez, man, you could have used Aura.Filter if you wanted something without dependencies.

https://github.com/auraphp/Aura.Filter

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