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:

// Using the package's Sanitizable triat
use Touhidurabir\ModelSanitize\Sanitizable;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
 
class User extends Model {
    use Sanitizable;
}
 
// The trait removes the `data` key, which is not a fillable field
$data = [
    'email' => 'somemail@test.com',
    'password' => 'password',
    'data' => 'some data' // Invalid field
];
 
User::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:

$data = [
    'email' => 'somemail@test.com',
    'password' => 'password',
    'data' => 'some data',
    'name' => 'Test User'
];
 
// Get only valid fields
User::sanitize($data);
/*
[
    'email' => 'somemail@test.com',
    'password' => 'password',
    'name' => 'Test User'
]
*/
 
// Get invalid attributes from data
User::gibberish($data);
/*
[
    'data' => 'some data',
]
*/

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

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