Add sanitizers which cast to common data types

[rimas-kudelis]

Basically, implement casting to bool, int, float, string (this would likely just do nothing), and maybe dates to Carbon instances?

[arondeparon]

Great idea! 😄 Have you implemented these sanitizers in your own project already? If so, feel free to submit them in a pull-request and I will consider including them in the default sanitizers.

[francoism90]

@arondeparon I would be interested in casting, however are these filters? I'm happy to make a PR for it. See examples given by Waavi: https://github.com/Waavi/Sanitizer/blob/master/src/Filters/Cast.php

[arondeparon]

@francoism90 looks like an interesting solution! :)

I could imagine doing something like this:

protected $sanitizers = [
    'amount' => [
            Cast::class => [
                'to' => Cast::CAST_TYPE_FLOAT,
            ]
        ]
];

[francoism90]

@arondeparon That looks cool! I'll take a look at your example and try to implement it. :)

[arondeparon]

Good luck! You might be able to draw some inspiration from the FilterVars implementation, which takes options as well.