Custom Filters/Validators in Zend Framework

Question

I have a Zend Framework application structure as below:

/application
/library
    /Zend
    /Core
        /Filter
            /MyFilter.php
        /Validator
            /MyValidator.php

I would like to put custom filters and validators in their respective folders and have them loaded automatically when used. However, I cannot figure out how to best accomplish this.

I need the solution to work with Zend_Filter_Input in this fashion:

$filters = array(
    'month'   => 'Digits',
    'account' => 'StringTrim',
    'other'   => 'MyFilter'
);

$validators = array(
    'account' => 'Alpha',
    'other'   => 'MyValidator'
);

$inputFilter = new Zend_Filter_Input($filters, $validators);

What I already know:

Core_Filter_MyFilter implements Zend_Filter_Interface
Obviously, the filters and validators are already in my include path.

Bill Karwin · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-01 15:36:59Z

19

I designed and implemented Zend_Filter_Input back in 2007.

You can add new class prefixes to help load your custom filter and validator classes. By default, Zend_Filter_Input searches for classes that have the prefixes "Zend_Filter" and "Zend_Validate". Try this:

$inputFilter->addNamespace('Core_Filter');

Before you run isValid() or other methods of the object.

Alternatively, you can also pass a new class prefix string in the options array, the fourth argument to the Zend_Filter_Input constructor:

$options = array('inputNamespace' => 'Core_Filter');
$inputFilter = new Zend_Filter_Input($filters, $validators, $data, $options);

See also the documentation I wrote for Zend_Filter_Input.

edited Feb 1, 2016 at 15:36

answered Oct 8, 2008 at 22:46

Bill Karwin

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4 Comments

leek Over a year ago

Excellent! I spent hours reading through the documentation but I must have missed this being mentioned. Thank you!

Andrew Taylor Over a year ago

So this is what SO defines as being 'the definitive answer on a given question' :)

Fopa Léon Constantin Over a year ago

@BillKarwin, The documentation link is broken. Can you provide an update one ?

Bill Karwin Over a year ago

@FopaLéonConstantin, I have fixed the link.

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