Re: Package Proposal: Magnetic Stripe Card

On 9 Oct 2003 at 21:06, mitchell perilstein wrote: > When there is a card-present transaction with a financial transaction > card, the card swipe device returns a string containing the data on > the card's one, two, or three magnetic tracks. A client browser can > capture the swipe string and post it to an application server, where > it can be processed. > > I'm starting work on a PEAR class that takes such a string, parses it, > verifies the various checksums, then makes the data components > available. Roughly like this: > > class MagStripeCard extends PEAR { > object MagStripeCard($string) {} // Does parse and checksums; > // ...returns self or PEAR_Error. > string getPAN() {} // primary account number > string getName() {} // account holder name > string getExpireMonth() {} // two characters > string getExpireYear() {} // two characters > string getServiceCode() {} // service code > string getPVKI() {} // PIN Verification Key Indicator > string getCVV() {} // Card Validation Value > string getPVV() {} // PIN Verification Value > // etc... > } > > * References > * > * Magnetic Stripe Card Standards - Card Reading > * http://www.magtek.com/documentation/public/99800004-1.pdf > * > * Application Note - Character Conversion > * http://www.magtek.com/documentation/public/99875065-4.pdf I like the idea. This might be useful in various business environments. Looking forward to see some code ... then please cast a regular proposal etc. as always :-)) Stefan