Installation

Requirements

• PHP 8.1 or higher
• Composer

Composer

Install the package via Composer:

composer require solophp/validator

Dependencies

The package has minimal dependencies:

{
    "require": {
        "php": "^8.1",
        "giggsey/libphonenumber-for-php-lite": "^8.13",
        "solophp/contracts": "^1.0"
    }
}

• libphonenumber-for-php-lite — For phone number validation
• solophp/contracts — Validation interface contract

Basic Setup

use Solo\Validator\Validator;

// Create validator instance
$validator = new Validator();

// Validate data
$errors = $validator->validate($data, $rules);

// Check result
if ($validator->fails()) {
    // Handle errors
    foreach ($validator->errors() as $field => $messages) {
        echo "$field: " . implode(', ', $messages) . "\n";
    }
}

With Custom Messages

// Define global custom messages
$messages = [
    'required' => 'This field is required.',
    'email' => 'Please provide a valid email.',
];

// Pass to constructor
$validator = new Validator($messages);

Next Steps

• Quick Start — Basic usage examples
• Validation Rules — All available rules