Rican7
commented
9 years ago Whoops! Fat fingered those tags there. :P I'd love to help!
The validator class can be used externally, but I wouldn't suggest it. To be honest, the validators are most likely not going to stay in Klein past 2.x. While I understand that they're very convenient, they are not a part of Klein's main concern as a library and introduce overhead in moving the project forward (and testing), not to mention that they aren't as robust as they could be.
Instead, I'd suggest using a more robust and well-tested validation library. Here are a few that I'd suggest:
- Symfony Validator: https://github.com/symfony/Validator (packagist)
- Respect\Validation: https://github.com/Respect/Validation (packagist)
- Illuminate Validation: https://github.com/illuminate/validation (packagist)
If you still realllly want to use the Klein Validations for some reason, it is possible.... The Klein\ Validator class holds its validators statically, and only initializes once, so you could have multiple instances of the Validator class without issue, as the actual validation rules are all held in a static/global context. That means that you could either inject the Validator into your model classes (recommended) or create new instances of the Validator class in each scope that you need it. Make sense?
I hope I was of help! I really appreciate the high praise of Klein! I love working on it, haha. :) I'm sorry if the info about the Klein Validator is disheartening, but I'd rather keep the project realllly good at what its designed to do and defer to other packages for other responsibilities. :smiley:
thomasdashney
doctorallen
Hi, first of all I love Klein!
Question regarding the Validators: I have Models in my application defined in their own classes. I understand that the validators are accessed via the $service provider. Is there any way for me to include the validators and use them (statically) within other classes, such as my model classes?
Cheers