README

A lightweight and extensible validation engine for ImpulsePHP. The validator provides common validation rules and a unified API for server-side form validation.

Installation

Use Composer to add the package to your project:

composer require impulsephp/validator

If you are working from the source repository, run composer install to generate the autoloader.

Quick start

use Impulse\Validator\Validator;

$validator = new Validator();

$errors = $validator->validate('username', 'Bob', 'required|min_length:3');

if ($errors) {
    // Handle validation errors
}

Documentation

More extensive documentation is available in the docs directory:

• Installation
• Usage
• Custom rules
• Translating messages

Testing

Unit tests are written with PHPUnit. From the project root run:

composer install
vendor/bin/phpunit

A simple test configuration is included in phpunit.xml.