hylianshield/validator-base-encoding

Base64, -32, -16 validation layer

Introduction

The base encoding validators allow the user to validate base64, -32 and -16 encoded messages. The validator will test if the string is encoded in the requested encoding., _(*1)

Validators will validate against the specification of RFC 4648., _(*2)

Additionally, the Base32 Crockford implementation is supported., _(*3)

Installation

composer require hylianshield/validator-base-encoding:^2.0

Usage

The encoding validators can be configured to require padding or make it optional. Additionally, some implementations require that partitioning will be supported., _(*4)

The RFC section on the interpretation of non-alphabet characters states:, _(*5)

Implementations MUST reject the encoded data if it contains characters outside the base alphabet when interpreting base-encoded data, unless the specification referring to this document explicitly states otherwise. Such specifications may instead state, as MIME does, that characters outside the base encoding alphabet should simply be ignored when interpreting data ("be liberal in what you accept"). Note that this means that any adjacent carriage return/ line feed (CRLF) characters constitute "non-alphabet characters" and are ignored., _(*6)

Therefore, the constructors of the validators have the following signature:, _(*7)

bool $requirePadding = true,
bool $allowPartitioning = false

With the exception of the Base16Validator, which does not use padding and therefore omits the first parameter, as well as the Base32CrockfordValidator, which requires padding and as such omits it as well., _(*8)

Padding validation

<?php
use HylianShield\Validator\BaseEncoding\Base64Validator;

// By default, padding is required.
$validator = new Base64Validator();
$validator->validate('d2Fycmlvcg=='); // true
$validator->validate('d2Fycmlvcg');   // false

// One can make padding validation optional.
$validator = new Base64Validator(false);
$validator->validate('d2Fycmlvcg=='); // true
$validator->validate('d2Fycmlvcg');   // true

CRLF validation

<?php
use HylianShield\Validator\BaseEncoding\Base64Validator;

// By default, partitioning is disallowed.
$validator = new Base64Validator();
$validator->validate('d2Fycmlvcg==');     // true
$validator->validate("d2Fycm\r\nlvcg=="); // false

// One can make partitioning allowed like so:
$validator = new Base64Validator(true, true);
$validator->validate('d2Fycmlvcg==');     // true
$validator->validate("d2Fycm\r\nlvcg=="); // true

Supported encodings

Validators are defined in the \HylianShield\Validator\BaseEncoding namespace., _(*9)

Base 64 encoding

Signature

<?php
use HylianShield\Validator\BaseEncoding\Base64Validator;

new Base64Validator(
    $requirePadding = true,
    $allowPartitions = false
);

Base 64 Encoding with URL and Filename Safe Alphabet

Signature

<?php
use HylianShield\Validator\BaseEncoding\Base64UrlValidator;

new Base64UrlValidator(
    $requirePadding = true,
    $allowPartitions = false
);

Base 32 encoding

Signature

<?php
use HylianShield\Validator\BaseEncoding\Base32Validator;

new Base32Validator(
    $requirePadding = true,
    $allowPartitions = false
);

Base 32 Encoding with Extended Hex Alphabet

Signature

<?php
use HylianShield\Validator\BaseEncoding\Base32HexValidator;

new Base32HexValidator(
    $requirePadding = true,
    $allowPartitions = false
);

Crockford's Base 32

Signature

<?php
use HylianShield\Validator\BaseEncoding\Base32CrockfordValidator;

new Base32CrockfordValidator(
    $allowPartitions = true
);

Base 16 encoding

Signature

<?php
use HylianShield\Validator\BaseEncoding\Base16Validator;

new Base16Validator(
    $allowPartitions = false
);