Re: Validation class method
| From: | Brent Cook | Date: | Thu, 06 Jun 2002 16:33:44 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Validation class method | ||
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On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Pierre-Alain Joye wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 11:05:24 -0500 (CDT)
> Brent Cook <busterb@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
>
> > That's a good idea. What do you think about this simpler version?
> >
> > function ssn($inbound)
> > {
> > // remove any dashes, spaces, returns, tabs or slashes
> > $inbound = str_replace(array('-','/','
> > ',"\t","\n"),'',$inbound);
> >
> > // check if this is a 9-digit number
> > return (is_int($inbound) && (strlen($inbound) == 9));
> > }
> >
> > - Brent
> is "123456789" a valid ssn ? :)
>
> just curious,
>
> pa
Probably not. I'm looking here for more info. Perhaps this could be a
little less trivial.
http://www.privateinvestigatorsoftware.com/articles/social_security.htm
- Brent