character-humaniser

A class that offers quick ways to make confusing/complex strings readable, for example passwords

Introduction

Passwords often give confusing/difficult outputs. For example: lower case l (lima) and upper case i (indigo) are similar in many fonts, and symbols such as tilde have names that are often unknown or difficult to remember.

For example:

$password = 'lIaA3~';

... can be easily translated to:

$password_humanised = 'lima INDIGO alpha ALPHA three tilde';

Features

The CharacterHumaniser class offers:

• array and string output for easy display
• catches unexpected characters
• ability to add your own custom definitions to undefined symbols/letters

As a bonus, there is a joke class: BadCharacterHumaniser which does a funny but awful attempt at the same:

$password = '$aX3k';
// can be badly converted to:
$password_humanised = 'benjamins aether XYLOPHONE cup of tea knife';

Install

Via Composer/packagist

composer require floor9design/character-humaniser

Via git

git clone https://github.com/floor9design-ltd/character-humaniser.git

Or:

git clone git@github.com:floor9design-ltd/character-humaniser.git

Usage

This is discussed in the usage document.

• usage

Recommended

The following related class has a great password generating function:

• floor9design/test-data-generator
• Use randomPassword()

Setup

There are no specific config setup steps required. The class should autoload in PSR-4 compliant systems. If you are using the class on its own, simply include it however is most appropriate.

Testing

Tests can be run as follows:

• ./vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit

The following tests and also creates code coverage (usually maintained at 100%)

• ./vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit --coverage-html docs/tests/

Static analysis/code review can be performed by using phpstan:

• ./vendor/bin/phpstan

Credits

• Rick

Changelog

A changelog is generated here:

• Change log

License

This software is available under the MIT licence.

• License File