Development and Technology

PHP Password Validation

PHP Password validator 2.1.0

Short announcement about my PHP Password Validator project. Version 2.1.0 has been released. It only bring support for PHP 8, with no additional changes.

There's no immediate reason to upgrade, but if you are working towards updating your codebase to PHP 8, then you can use this library to validate the strength of user passwords. Improving security is always good!

It's available to install from Packagist using composer require garybell/password-validator, or you can get the source from the GitLab repository.

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