[ANNOUNCEMENT] Validate-0.5.0 (alpha) Released.

The new PEAR package Validate-0.5.0 (alpha) has been released at http://pear.php.net/. Release notes ------------- - Bug #2936, typo - Bug #2879, Issn wrong validation - Better email validation - Request #997 validate:date minium and maximum accept Date objects (By Torsten Roehr) - Request #4055 Making multiple() cope with new dir structure (By Torsten Roehr) To use with Validate_Finance_CreditCard then do 'type' => 'Finance_CreditCard_number' For Validate_US it would be 'type' => 'US_ssn' This applies to all packages like that under Validate. - unit testing for multiple (By Torsten Roehr) - CS fixes - Split country and finance classes and credit card functions into their own sub packages of Validate - New lead/developer (Helgi) - Few more none alpha chars added - _check_control_number renamed to _checkControlNumber _get_control_number renamed to _getControlNumber _mult_weights renamed to _multWeights - added email test - Split these functions over to a new sub package called Validate_ISPN (International Standard Product Numbers) * ISSN * ISBN * ISMN * EAN8 * EAN13 * EAN14 * UCC12 * SSCC - splited multiple() test in with (skipif not installed) or without card, Package Info ------------- Package to validate various datas. It includes : - numbers (min/max, decimal or not) - email (syntax, domain check) - string (predifined type alpha upper and/or lowercase, numeric,...) - date (min, max) - uri (RFC2396) - possibility valid multiple data with a single method call (::multiple) Related Links ------------- Package home: http://pear.php.net/package/Validate Changelog: http://pear.php.net/package/Validate/download/0.5.0 Download: http://pear.php.net/get/Validate-0.5.0.tgz Authors ------------- Pierre-Alain Joye (lead) Thomas V.V.Cox <cox@idecnet.com> (lead) Stefan Neufeind <pear.neufeind@speedpartner.de> (developer) Helgi Þormar <helgi@trance.is> (lead) bertrand Gugger <bertrand@toggg.com> (lead)