Sanitize and Format Data in PHP with the Transformer Package

 Transformer is a PHP package for sanitizing and formatting data powered by Laravel's validation components. The package uses a familiar Laravel validation-like syntax to transform data using callable functions, classes, and more:

use Closure;
 
// example available functions at runtime:
function to_carbon($value)
{
    return new Carbon\Carbon($value);
}
 
function only_numbers($value)
{
    return preg_replace("/[^0-9]/",'',$value);
}
 
$input = [
  'first_name' => '    jim    ',
  'last_name' => '   thompson',
  'phone_number' => '123-456-7890',
  'date_of_birth' => "1991-05-01",
];
 
(new DataTransformer($input, [
    'first_name' => 'trim|ucfirst',
    'last_name' => 'trim|ucfirst',
    'phone_number' => 'only_numbers',
    'date_of_birth' => 'to_carbon|->format:m/d/y',
]))->transform();
 
// Returns:
// [
//     "first_name" => "Jim",
//     "last_name" => "Thompson",
//     "phone_number" => "1234567890",
//     "date_of_birth" => "05/01/91",
// ]

Those familiar with Laravel's validation API will notice the string-based transformer rules. Also, as seen in the snippet, this package has a "chainable" syntax (to_carbon|->format:m/d/y) that can chain additional calls on a piece of data.

You can also transform data using closures or a class implementing the provided Transformable interface. Additionally, this package supports nested array data using dot notation, wildcard inputs (apply functions on keys matching a wildcard pattern), and more.

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

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OpenAI PHP Client

 OpenAI PHP Client is a supercharged PHP API client that allows you to interact with the OpenAI API.

Here's a brief example from the package's readme of using the OpenAI PHP client:

$client = OpenAI::client('YOUR_API_KEY');
 
$result = $client->completions()->create([
    'model' => 'davinci',
    'prompt' => 'PHP is',
]);
 
echo $result['choices'][0]['text'];
// an open-source, widely-used, server-side scripting language.

At the release of this post, the OpenAI PHP client supports the following resources:

• Models (docs)
• Completions (docs)
• Edits (docs)
• Embeddings (docs)
• Files (docs)
• FineTunes (docs)
• Moderations (docs)

OpenAI has a broad range of uses related to natural language processing (NLP), generating code from natural language, and more. To start using the OpenAI package, you'll need to familiarize yourself with the OpenAI platform. I'd recommend starting with the API docs and OpenAI API examples.

To start using OpenAI with your PHP applications, check out this package on GitHub at openai-php/client.

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