Automatically Sanitize Model Data

Laravel Model Sanitize is a package by Touhidur Rahman to handle the sanitization process of model data when creating and updating records.

Given the following call to User::create(), the Sanitize package will remove non-fillable data automatically:

 1// Using the package's Sanitizable triat
 2use Touhidurabir\ModelSanitize\Sanitizable;
 3use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
 4 
 5class User extends Model {
 6    use Sanitizable;
 7}
 8 
 9// The trait removes the `data` key, which is not a fillable field
10$data = [
11    'email' => 'somemail@test.com',
12    'password' => 'password',
13    'data' => 'some data' // Invalid field
14];
15 
16User::create($data);

The Sanitizable trait will automatically work for the various create and update model methods (i.e., updateOrCreate, firstOrCreate, etc.).

If you are using $fillable on models, this package will not be necessary, however, if you use $guarded = [], this package will discard columns not found on the table.

The package also has two static methods for separating data with corresponding fields to get valid/invalid data:

 1$data = [
 2    'email' => 'somemail@test.com',
 3    'password' => 'password',
 4    'data' => 'some data',
 5    'name' => 'Test User'
 6];
 7 
 8// Get only valid fields
 9User::sanitize($data);
10/*
11[
12    'email' => 'somemail@test.com',
13    'password' => 'password',
14    'name' => 'Test User'
15]
16*/
17 
18// Get invalid attributes from data
19User::gibberish($data);
20/*
21[
22    'data' => 'some data',
23]
24*/

You can learn more about this package, get full installation instructions, and view the source code on GitHub.