Validate.js

The lamest customizable text validator. Built with ease of use and capability in mind.

Getting Started

git clone https://github.com/nicolsek/Validate.js cd Validate.js/

Usage

Include the script.

<!-- APPLICATION CODE -->
<script src="validate.min.js"></script>
<!-- APPLICATION CODE --> 

Create the config for the validator.

var config = {
    characters: "Alpha-numeric-special", // The allowed characters to check for validation.
    
    minLength: 4, // The minimum length of text(s) to be validated.
    maxLength: 16, //The maximum length of text(s) to be validated.

    musthave: 2, // The amount of types of special characters it must have.
    mustContain: "special",  // The kind of characters it must contain, for now only special is valid.

    banned: ["Password", "password", "password123"], // The banned string(s) that aren't valid text inputs.
    bannedContain: "password", // Cannot contain these value(s).
}

var validator = createValidator(validator); // Returns the validator object.

validator.validate("CorrectHorseBatteryStaple123$@"); // Returns that it exceeds the max length.
validator.validate("SpookyBooky$!2"); // Returns empty array as it's fine.

Documentation

Customizable options.

Characters

characters: , the characters that are allowed within the string to be validated. The options for characters are combined with hyphen (-) as concatination.

• alpha, all lower case letters from a - z are acceptable.
• Alpha, all mixed case letters from A - z are acceptable.
• ALPHA, all upper case letters from A - Z are acceptable.
• numeric, all number 0 - 9 are acceptable.
• special, all special characters are acceptable.

Passed as string, example: characters: "alpha-numeric";

Length

• minLength: , minimum length of the string to be validated, passed as int.
• maxLength: , maximum length of the string to be validated, passed as int.

Special Characters

• mustHave: , the amount of special characters it must contain, passed as int.
• mustContain: , the type of special characters it must contain, only "special" is valid, passed as string.

Banned or Illegal Inputs

• banned: , the exact phrases that are banned, passed as an array of strings or one string.
• bannedContain: , the phrases the text cannot contain, passed as an array of strings or one string.

Built With

• JavaScript - The language it was built in.

Authors

• Nicole Tusek Nicolsek

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

Acknowledgments

• Stack Overflow for research on array concatination.