Class Attribute‑based validation package for Laravel users

[dconco]

Hi Laravel team, I built an attribute‑based request validator package on Composer that works well with Laravel models or DTOs. It uses PHP 8 attributes for rules like #[Email], #[MinLength], #[Enum], and a class marker #[Validatable]. It returns a consistent error payload with message + errors.

I’m sharing it here to get feedback from the community and see if anyone wants to try it. Happy to improve or add Laravel‑specific integration if there’s interest.

Repo/Example usage: https://github.com/dconco/phpspa-validator

[shaedrich]

It doesn't work with Laravel models out of the box, because Eloquent as an ORM follows the active record pattern, meaning, database columns are not actual properties on the model.

And for DTOs, there's already spatie/laravel-data—don't know if you really want to compete with them

[shaedrich]

How is it different from spatie/laravel-data?

[dconco]

The syntax. as you can see, this one is a standalone library. It is based on PHP Attributes. not functions like laravel-data. You can easily validate request form than writing lot of codes.

class User {
    #[MinLength(4)]
    public string $username;
}

See it is 100% different from laravel-data. and it gives you simplicity and lightweight than the other.
check out the docs brr https://github.com/dconco/phpspa-validator

[shaedrich]

Why functions?

dconco/phpspa-validator	spatie/laravel-data
class User { #[MinLength(4)] public string $username; }	class User extends Data { #[Min(4)] public string $username; }

Difference between dconco/phpspa-validator and spatie/laravel-data

- class User {
+ class User extends Data {
-   #[MinLength(4)]
+   #[Min(4)]
    public string $username;
}

Yeah, 100 % different … You've clearly read the documentation^[1][2] …

^[1] https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-data/v4/validation/using-validation-attributes
^[2] https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-data/v4/advanced-usage/validation-attributes

[dconco]

Ohh, I guess I didn't do lot of research before creating this lib. hmm

[shaedrich]

We've all been there 😉