Hello all Back in March 2008, I submitted a proposal for a Zend_Validate component to validate EU "value added tax identification numbers" (VATINs) aka. "VAT numbers" [1]:
http://www.zendframework.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Validate_SalesTaxNum+Proposal Any developer writing a business-to-business application for deployment in the EU must - by EU law - collect and thus validate VATINs. As this is a piece of functionality, which is common amongst many applications, I feel it belongs in ZF. IMHO, it is akin to the component, which validates credit card numbers. Following the discussions I have lead off list and the comments in the actual proposal, I have implemented a ZF 2.0 version of the original proposal: "Zend\Validator\VATIN". Before, I submit another formal proposal for ZF 2.0, I would to ask whether anyone would be interested in such a component in ZF 2.0. These are only use cases: http://gist.github.com/432917 The validator component itself uses regular expressions as defined at http://goo.gl/FMpP. Optionally, it has access to "Zend\Service\VIES" which in turn contacts the VIES (EU Commission's validation SOAP service). I have the components "Zend\Validator\VATIN" and "Zend\Service\VIES" fully implemented with extensive unit tests. I would be delighted to hear your opinions. Best regards Jonathan Maron [1] Or any of the other terms listed at http://goo.gl/hNH3
