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PHP 7 Programming Cookbook

By : Doug Bierer
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PHP 7 Programming Cookbook

By: Doug Bierer

Overview of this book

PHP 7 comes with a myriad of new features and great tools to optimize your code and make your code perform faster than in previous versions. Most importantly, it allows you to maintain high traffic on your websites with low-cost hardware and servers through a multithreading web server. This book demonstrates intermediate to advanced PHP techniques with a focus on PHP 7. Each recipe is designed to solve practical, real-world problems faced by PHP developers like yourself every day. We also cover new ways of writing PHP code made possible only in version 7. In addition, we discuss backward-compatibility breaks and give you plenty of guidance on when and where PHP 5 code needs to be changed to produce the correct results when running under PHP 7. This book also incorporates the latest PHP 7.x features. By the end of the book, you will be equipped with the tools and skills required to deliver efficient applications for your websites and enterprises.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
PHP 7 Programming Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chaining $_POST validators


The heavy lifting for this recipe has already been accomplished in the preceding recipe. Core functionality is defined by Application\Filter\AbstractFilter. The actual validation is performed by an array of validating callbacks.

How to do it...

  1. Look over the preceding recipe, Chaining $_POST filters. We will be using all of the classes and configuration files in this recipe, except where noted here.

  2. To begin, we define a configuration array of validation callbacks. As with the preceding recipe, each callback should implement Application\Filter\CallbackInterface, and should return an instance of Application\Filter\Result. Validators would take this generic form:

    use Application\Filter\ { Result, Messages, CallbackInterface };
    $config = [
      // validator callbacks
      'validators' => [
        'key' => new class () implements CallbackInterface 
        {
          public function __invoke($item, $params) : Result
          {
            // validation logic goes here
            return new...