Just a quick update – I’m currently working on integrating some libraries from the Zend Framework into CakePHP. The first one I’m doing is Zend_Validate, which is a heavy, robust alternative to CakePHP’s own Validation class. I’ll be sharing my results as a plugin when I’m done. Stay tuned.
The Validation::postal() method that comes with CakePHP 1.2 is good in that it can handle a number of different country formats, but the problem is you can only validate your data against one country. What if you want to accept, say, either Canadian or US postal/zip code formats? I ran into this problem earlier today, [...]