Bank Account Validation
BAV is an acronym for Bank Account Validator. BAV offers an object oriented
API written in
PHP
to validate German bank accounts. Normally BAV is used in online shops where it validates the
bank account of a customer before submitting his order. Currently BAV supports only
German bank accounts.
Features
-
Bank accounts can be validated against the bank code.
-
Check if a bank code exists.
-
Check if a German BIC
exists.
-
Informations (bank name, agencies, city, etc.) about banks are provided.
-
Independence of data source - You may choose one implementation (PDO,
the
text file of the Bundesbank) or you implement your own data source.
-
BAV is freely available under the GPL
Requirements
-
A PHP Interpreter since the 5th generation
-
PHP must be compiled against cURL.
-
No DBS - Because BAV may
use a text file as data source no DBS is necessary.