Re: Address validation API's for PHP

On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 10:13 -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: > Someone needs to smack Robert. He's off on a tangent again. ;-P > > On 6/13/07, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 07:45 -0500, Jay Blanchard wrote: > > > Good morning group, > > > > > > I am doing some searching and researching but I also know that this > > > world famous group may have some insight and resources that I can > > > benefit from. > > > > Your wish shall be answered. You can prevent dangling prepositions, such > > as the one above, by rearranging your sentence a little. > > > > "I am doing some searching and researching but I also know that this > > world famous group may have some insight and resources that I can > > benefit from." > > > > Would become: > > > > "I am doing some searching and researching but I also know that this > > world famous group may have some insight and resources that from which I > > can benefit." > > If you want to be technical, Cummings.... > "I have been searching and researching, but I am aware that this > world-famous group may be able to offer some insight and resources > from which I may benefit." Doh! Typo! :) > > > > > > I am looking for an address validation database and API to use with our > > > retail applications (does not have to be free). I would prefer to be > > > able to buy data according to postal code. I will likely use AJAX to > > > take an address that is input into the system and find a similar or > > > better address and then offer the user the opportunity to use the > > > returned address or the one that they put into the system. You have all > > > seen this in operation if you use maps.google.com when it does not flat > > > out recognize the address. > > > > > > Is anyone aware of anything like this that they can point me to? > > > > Similarly... > > > > "Is anyone aware of anything like this that they can point me to?" > > > > Would become: > > > > "Is anyone aware of anything like this to which they can point me?" > > .... and.... > "Is anyone aware of a similar system or database?" Baby steps my friend! We don't want them to lose focus too early in their development :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'