Re: Validate_DE

On 20 Oct 2003 at 23:05, Stephan Schmidt wrote: > I just developed a small add-on for the Validate package that is able > to do some validation that's needed for German sites. Hi Stephan, just a few comments to your email: > Currently it's able to validate: > - postcode (only format) Okay - afaik there is no way to validate if a postcode is cirrect / registered, since there are many numbers also owned by poboxes etc., right? > - bankcode (only format) This is a thing I'd suggest to be added as Validate/Finance/DE.php (just my personal oppinion) since in the discussion about IBAN- validation I had strong discussions (mainly with Pierre) and we agreed to open a Validate-Finance-"category". A short "format only"- validation might be good as a first step. But we could even validate the bankcode against an officially available list - as proposed some time ago. Would you volunteer to implement such a caching / validation / ...? Then I'd surely send you my finding on this topic - e.g. from telephone calls with the Federal German Bank which issue the bankcodes. > - dialing codes (checks for mobile phone or commercial number) Is there any list of area-codes available that could be of use? I somewhere heard there should be a list available for the US. Maybe there's also one for Germany? If this is available in various countries somehow - how about opening a new "category" Validate- Telephone or similar which would have a DE.php-part? > - phone number > - 0700 phone number (a number you keep your whole life) Maybe these could also go under Validate-Telephone? > These were the only validation rules I needed, more could possible > follow... At least there's a foundation for the German package.. [...] > Should I just commit this to CVS? Can it be included in the next > version? I'd personally favor to discuss the structure of such submissions here on the list, especially with Pierre. The Finance-part is something we have now already agreed upon. Maybe a Telephone-part (or what it will be called) would also be a good thing [tm]. :-) Pierre, requesting your comments ... from other's as well, surely! My 2 cents Stefan