Thomas Weidner’s Blog: Validating barcodes

Zend Framework’s barcodes validator has been recently re-engineered by Thomas Weidner.

You think it did already exist? Yes, and no. Let’s clearify a little bit.
The old implementation of Zend_Validate_Barcode did not work properly. It was fixed to EAN13 and UPCA and very limited.

I reworked it completly, added new features and a easy API.
It is now a base component for Zend_Barcode, a new component which provides you with the ability to print barcodes.

New validator brings not only API changes towards greater flexibility, but also 12 new standards and improved validation.