Data Cleaner

True\DataCleaner is a static utility class for sanitizing user input and formatting common data — emails, phone numbers, postal codes, currency, names, URLs, and so on. Reach for it before storing form input or echoing it back to the page.

Basic usage

Every method is static — call them directly, no instance required:

use True\DataCleaner;

$clean = DataCleaner::alphaInt($input);

Stripping by character class

Method	Keeps
`int($str)`	Digits only.
`alpha($str)`	Letters only.
`alphaInt($str)`	Letters and digits.
`decimal($str)`	Digits, dot, and minus sign.
`float($str)`	Floating-point number with fractions.
`name($str)`	Letters, digits, spaces, name punctuation.
`streetAddress($str)`	Address-safe characters.
`filePath($str)`	Letters, digits, hyphens.
`dbField($str)`	Letters, digits, hyphens, underscores, spaces.
`postalCode($str)`	Letters, digits, hyphens, spaces.
`creditCard($str)`	Digits only.
`ip($str)`	Validates and returns an IP address.

Formatting

Method	Behavior
`phoneFormat($ph, $type = 1, $noCountryCode = false)`	Type 1: `555-555-5555` Type 2: `(555) 555-5555` Type 3: E.164 `+15555555555`
`currency($str)`	Formats a number as currency.
`postalCodeFormat($str, $country = 'US')`	US `12345` / `12345-6789`, CA `A1A 1A1`, AU `1234`.
`addDashes($cc, $type)`	Adds dashes to a credit-card number per brand.
`titleCase($str)`	Title-cases with sensible word exceptions.
`splitName($name)`	Returns `[firstName, lastName]`.
`convertNum($num)`	Number-to-words (English).

HTML and meta output

Method	Purpose
`email($str)`	Sanitizes an email address.
`url($str)`	Sanitizes a URL.
`filterOutURLs($str)`	Strips URLs out of free-form text.
`forMetaTags($str)`	Prepares text for `<meta>` content.
`encodeQuotes($str)`	HTML-entity-encodes single and double quotes.
`forHtmlEditors($str)`	Encodes ampersands for safe round-tripping through editors.
`htmlOutput($str)`	Encodes special characters for HTML output.
`sanitize($str, $type = 1)`	Type 1: strip HTML. Type 2: strip HTML + entity-encode. Type 3: same as Type 2.
`escape($str)`	Encodes special HTML characters.
`charset_decode_utf_8($str)`	Decode UTF-8 to the original charset.

Example

use True\DataCleaner;

$inputEmail   = 'user@example.com';
$cleanEmail   = DataCleaner::email($inputEmail);

$inputPhone   = '(555) 123-4567';
$prettyPhone  = DataCleaner::phoneFormat($inputPhone, 2);

$inputAddress = '123 Main St., Apt #4B';
$cleanAddress = DataCleaner::streetAddress($inputAddress);

Notes

Methods return an empty string when the input is null.
Inputs are assumed to be strings or null — pass anything else at your own risk.
intOnly and alphaOnly are deprecated. Use int and alpha.