Laravel Sanitized Requests

Sanitize request input before passing to validation.

Installation

composer require adamthehutt/laravel-sanitized-requests

Usage

Create a Request class and use the SanitizesInput trait. Then implement the sanitize(Sanitizer $sanitizer) method to clean up user input before it is validated.

use AdamTheHutt\SanitizedRequests\SanitizesInput;
use AdamTheHutt\SanitizedRequests\Sanitizer;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\FormRequest;

class StoreItem extends FormRequest
{
    use SanitizesInput;

    public function sanitize(Sanitizer $sanitizer): void
    {
        $sanitizer->castToInt("user_id")
                  ->castToBoolean("for_sale")
                  ->castToFloat("price")
                  ->forgetIfEmpty("item_description")
                  ->trimWhitespace("nested.*.wildcard.param");
    }
}

Sanitizers

The following sanitize methods are currently supported:

• castToBool($key) - Casts the string input value to a boolean
• castToInt($key) - Casts the string input value to an integer
• castToFloat($key) - Casts the string input value to a float
• castToString($key) - Casts the input value to a string
• forgetIfEmpty($key) - Removes from input both empty strings and arrays with only empty values
• map($key, $callable) - Applies an arbitrary callback to the input value(s)
• trimWhitespace($key) - Trims whitespace from a string input value