An extensive utility belt for Slytherin

A package that provides generators, helpers, and utilities for Slytherin.

Installation

Install Weasley via Composer:

$ composer require rougin/weasley

Features

Generators

Access the generator commands through vendor/bin/weasley in the terminal/command line. To know the more the arguments and options, include the option --help to the chosen command.

Command	Description
make:check	Creates a new check (validation) class based on Valitron.
make:handler	Creates a new Slytherin Middleware class.
make:package	Creates a new Slytherin Integration class.
make:route	Creates a new HTTP route class.

HTTP Routes

Controller	Description
HttpRoute	A simple HTTP route class for RESTful APIs.
JsonRoute	Provides methods for RESTful APIs in JSON format.

NOTE: In other PHP frameworks, this is also known as Controllers.

Packages

The following classes below are using the IntegrationInterface from Slytherin:

Package	Description
Laravel/Eloquent	Based on the illuminate/database (Eloquent).
Laravel/Blade	Based on the illuminate/view (Blade).
Laravel/Paginate	Based on the illuminate/pagination.
Session	A simple implementation of the SessionHandlerInterface.

NOTE: The mentioned integrations above needs to include their required dependencies first.

HTTP Handlers

The following classes below uses the Middleware component of Slytherin:

Handler	Description
AllowCrossOrigin	Adds additional headers for Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS).
EmptyStringToNull	Converts the empty strings from request as `null`.
JsonContentType	Changes content response to `application/json`.
MutateRequest	A middleware that can be extended to mutate/transform values from the request.
SpoofHttpMethod	Replaces the HTTP verb from `_method` value.
TrimStringValue	Trims the strings from an incoming request.

NOTE: In other PHP frameworks, this is also known as Middlewares.

Mutators

Mutators are classes that mutates (transforms) specified result (e.g., PSR-07 responses, API data, etc.):

Handler	Description
JsonMutator	Mutates the PSR-07 response in JSON format.
RestMutator	Mutates the result created from `Laravel/Paginate` based on Paypal's API Style Guide.

NOTE: The Laravel/Paginate package must be included to use the parsing capabilities of RestMutator.

Validation

Weasley also provides a validation class on top of Valitron. Kindly create a class that extends to the Check class:

use Rougin\Weasley\Check;

class UserCheck extends Check
{
    protected $labels =
    [
        'name' => 'Name',
        'email' => 'Email',
        'age' => 'Age',
    ];

    protected $rules =
    [
        'name' => 'required',
        'setting' => 'required|email',
        'type' => 'required|numeric',
    ];
}

Once created, the data can be submitted to the said class for validation:

$check = new UserCheck;

$data = /* e.g., data from request */;

if ($check->valid($data))
{
  // $data passed from validation
}
else
{
  // Get the available errors ---
  $errors = $check->errors();
  // ----------------------------

  // Or get the first error only ---
  echo $check->firstError();
  // -------------------------------
}