11.1 - Aliases.md

11.1 - Field name aliases

You can give field names aliases. This can be handy if an input field name is different from the name you expect for i.e. your database entity.

use KrisKuiper\Validator\Validator;

$data = [
    'product' => '1850048',
    'code' => '0718037893532',
];

$validator = new Validator($data);

//Create an alias for product and code
$validator->alias('product', 'product_id');
$validator->alias('code', 'ean'); 

//Add rules for the two new aliases
$validator->field('product_id')->isInt()->min(1);
$validator->field('ean')->isString()->length(13);

//Execute the validation
$validator->execute();

//Retrieve the validated data
print_r($validator->validatedData()->toArray());

This will return:

[
    'product_id' => '1850048', 
    'ean' => '0718037893532'
]

Note: aliases can also be used in blueprints.

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