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Validates Zip / Postal type codes by country with some features

Postal Systems by Country
DMOZ Post/Zip Code Info+DB
List of Postal Codes

Based on a similar project sirprize/postal-code-validator but expanded on it adding over 100 new validations and updating ther others using mostly the Wikipedia postal codes list and some other features I needed in zip validation.

Installation

composer require detain/zip-zapper

Usage

Check If Country Is Supported

use Detain\ZipZapper\Validator;

$validator = new Validator();
$validator->hasCountry('CH'); // returns true

Check If Postal Code Is Properly Formatted

use Detain\ZipZapper\Validator;

$validator = new Validator();
$validator->isValid('CH', 'usjU87jsdf'); // returns false
$validator->isValid('CH', '3007'); // returns true

Get The Possible Formats For a Specific Country

use Detain\ZipZapper\Validator;

$validator = new Validator();
$validator->getFormats('GB'); // returns array('@@## #@@', '@#@ #@@', '@@# #@@', '@@#@ #@@', '@## #@@', '@# #@@')

Formatting

• # = 0-9
• @ = a-zA-Z