On 2013-08-20 7:53 PM, Norman Peelman wrote:
> On 08/20/2013 03:06 PM, Twayne wrote:
....
>>
>
> I responded even though you SOLVED... at least let us know what your
> solution was.
>
Oh, sorry; guess I was in a hurry. I simply came across a couple of
methods, neither of which was properly coded, and use a combo of the two
methods to assemble mine. If you're interested, here's a crimp sheet I
collected:
--------------
From the Canada Post Addressing Guide:
"Postal codes must be printed in
upper case with the first three
elements separated from the last
three by one space (no hyphens)."
=================================================
POSTAL CODES FOR 12 COUNTRIES
<?php
$country_code="US";
$zip_postal="11111";
$ZIPREG=array(
"US"=>"^\d{5}([\-]?\d{4})?$",
"UK"=>"^(GIR|[A-Z]\d[A-Z\d]??|[A-Z]{2}\d[A-Z\d]??)[ ]??(\d[A-Z]{2})$",
"DE"=>" \b((?:0[1-46-9]\d{3})|(?:[1-357-9]\d{4})|(?:[4][0-24-9]\d{3})|(?:[6][013-9] \d{3}))\b ",
"CA"=>"^([ABCEGHJKLMNPRSTVXY]\d[ABCEGHJKLMNPRSTVWXYZ])\
{0,1}(\d[ABCEGHJKLMNPRSTVWXYZ]\d)$",
"FR"=>"^(F-)?((2[A|B])|[0-9]{2})[0-9]{3}$",
"IT"=>"^(V-|I-)?[0-9]{5}$",
"AU"=>" ^(0[289][0-9]{2})|([1345689][0-9]{3})|(2[0-8][0-9]{2})|(290[0-9])|(291[0-4] )|(7[0-4][0-9]{2})|(7[8-9][0-9]{2})$ ",
"NL"=>"^[1-9][0-9]{3}\s?([a-zA-Z]{2})?$",
"ES"=>"^([1-9]{2}|[0-9][1-9]|[1-9][0-9])[0-9]{3}$",
"DK"=>"^([D-d][K-k])?( |-)?[1-9]{1}[0-9]{3}$",
"SE"=>"^(s-|S-){0,1}[0-9]{3}\s?[0-9]{2}$",
"BE"=>"^[1-9]{1}[0-9]{3}$"
);
if ($ZIPREG[$country_code]) {
if (!preg_match("/".$ZIPREG[$country_code]."/i",$zip_postal)){
//Validation failed, provided zip/postal code is not valid.
} else {
//Validation passed, provided zip/postal code is valid.
}
} else {
//Validation not available
}
=======================================================================
OR ...
function fnValidatePostal($mValue, $sRegion = '')
{
$mValue = strtolower($mValue));
$sFirst = substr($mValue, 0, 1);
$sRegion = strtolower($sRegion);
$aRegion = array(
'nl' => 'a',
'ns' => 'b',
'pe' => 'c',
'nb' => 'e',
'qc' => array('g', 'h', 'j'),
'on' => array('k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'p'),
'mb' => 'r',
'sk' => 's',
'ab' => 't',
'bc' => 'v',
'nt' => 'x',
'nu' => 'x',
'yt' => 'y'
);
if (preg_match('/[abceghjlkmnprstvxy]/', $sFirst) &&
!preg_match('/[dfioqu]/', $mValue) && preg_match('/^\w\d\w[-
]?\d\w\d$/', $mValue))
{
if (!empty($sRegion) && array_key_exists($sRegion, $aRegion))
{
if (is_array($aRegion[$sRegion]) && in_array($sFirst,
$aRegion[$sRegion]))
{
return true;
}
else if (is_string($aRegion[$sRegion]) && $sFirst ==
$aRegion[$sRegion])
{
return true;
}
}
else if (empty($sRegion))
{
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
===================================================
AND
===========================================================
Sounds like a regexp pattern like:
Code:
/^(?:[A-CEGHJ-NPR-TVX][0-9]){3}$/
could be used to validate the form of a given Canadian postal code
based on the description you gave. (Whether or not the postal code is
truly valid/used is, of course, another matter altogether.)
All that being said, I see that Canada Post has an API (and I'm
fairly sure the USPS does, too) ... you might actually check validity
with the code issuing authority at the time of submission....
------------------------
I'm most interested in using the API's that are available though as when
I figure out how to access them programatically I'll do so. Most of the
places I want to validate postal codes turn out to have an online API,
seriously relieving me of a lot of code and nullifying the possibility
of future changes, although there apparently have been few in the last
decade or so.
I'm a neophyte with little experience in these matters yet.
Cheers,
Twayne`
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