[nycphp-talk] Valudating common field types
John Campbell
jcampbell1 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 26 16:26:32 EDT 2009
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Yogesh Agashe <yogesh.agashe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Konstantin,
>
> Thanks for the feedback. Right, So many cases to handle in there. I will
> also add minimum 2 characters to the list.
May I ask, what is the point of all of this? Who benefits from you
imposing all sorts of piddly rules about what is in a name? Do you
benefit? Why go to the extra effort to make your code only work for
99% of American English names. If you do nothing, your code will work
for any name, and you will have more free time to do something
worthwhile.
BTW, I just checked my database, and I have 2 icelandic customers
that don't even have last names on their credit cards. I am glad I
don't do validation, because if I did, I probably would have lost
those customers.
Regards,
-John Campbell
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