How to Validate a Last Name in PHP

Name validation is great for a lot of reasons, but you don’t need me to tell you why. Instead, you need a way to get it done quickly, so let’s get straight to it.

Start with installation via the command line of composer:

composer require cloudmersive/cloudmersive_validate_api_client

Proceed to calling our function with this code:

<?php
require_once(__DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php');
// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
$config = Swagger\Client\Configuration::getDefaultConfiguration()->setApiKey('Apikey', 'YOUR_API_KEY');
// Uncomment below to setup prefix (e.g. Bearer) for API key, if needed
// $config = Swagger\Client\Configuration::getDefaultConfiguration()->setApiKeyPrefix('Apikey', 'Bearer');
$apiInstance = new Swagger\Client\Api\NameApi(
// If you want use custom http client, pass your client which implements `GuzzleHttp\ClientInterface`.
// This is optional, `GuzzleHttp\Client` will be used as default.
new GuzzleHttp\Client(),
$config
);
$input = new \Swagger\Client\Model\LastNameValidationRequest(); // \Swagger\Client\Model\LastNameValidationRequest | Validation request information
try {
$result = $apiInstance->nameValidateLastName($input);
print_r($result);
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'Exception when calling NameApi->nameValidateLastName: ', $e->getMessage(), PHP_EOL;
}
?>

And you’re already done. Input a last name and try it out! For more like this, check out the rest of what our validate API has to offer, including IP geolocation and email validation.