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Validate a Credit Card

Dawn Rossi, 12-10-2008
This little function helps validating a given credit card number is legit:


function ValidateCreditCardNumber($cc_num)
{
 
$pattern = "/^3[47]\d{13}$/";//American Express
 
if (preg_match($pattern,$cc_num))
  {
    return
true;
  }
 
 
$pattern = "/^([30|36|38]{2})([0-9]{12})$/";//Diner's Club
 
if (preg_match($pattern,$cc_num))
  {
    return
true;
  }
 
 
$pattern = "/^6011\d{12}$/";//Discover Card
 
if (preg_match($pattern,$cc_num))
  {
    return
true;
  }
 
 
$pattern = "/^5[12345]\d{14}$/";//Mastercard
 
if (preg_match($pattern,$cc_num))
  {
    return
true;
  }
   
 
$pattern = "/^4\d{12}(\d\d\d){0,1}$/";//Visa
 
if (preg_match($pattern,$cc_num))
  {
    return
true;
  }

 
$pattern = "/^30[012345]\d{11}$/";//Diners
 
if (preg_match($pattern,$cc_num))
  {
    return
true;
  }

 
$pattern = "/^3[68]\d{12}$/";//Diners #2
 
if (preg_match($pattern,$cc_num))
  {
    return
true;
  }

 
// Not valid
 
return false
}

seosoeasy, 12-12-2008
Ohh cool job! By last week i read an article relating how to reduce Credit Card Fraud for Internet Merchants.It was interesting.But now i have some clear idea by your excellent posts.I really appreciate your hard work.You are rocking.Thanks.

Geoserv, 01-13-2009
STUMBLED!

Wow, very nice piece of code.


Thanks for posting.

That Guy, 01-17-2009
I stumbled this!
I don't really know what its written in. Is it Javascript? n ot perl.

john, 01-17-2009
@That Guy, Today: php

kamikaze.cockroach, 01-19-2009
@That Guy: Looks like PHP to me.

David, 01-20-2009
Looks good.
One note: as it will stop processing as soon as return is called, I'd move the check for Visa to the top, and maybe follow with MasterCard, while putting the less frequent ones, like Diner's Club, near the bottom so that they only get executed if it is not a more common card.

Also, as the code is the same every time, you could save yourself a few lines by just putting the pattern strings in an array and iterating through.

chris, 01-21-2009
@David: Unless you're going to be processing a large number of cards, the order of the checks remains negligible.

The array idea is a good one, but I think that for the purposes of illustrating card verification this code serves it's purposes better.

I might also return which type of card validated (i.e. this is a visa that correctly passed validation) as well but that would be just me :)

mohrt, 01-24-2009
Just to clarify, an luhn-10 check is only a syntax check, it doesn't check whether or not the card number is actually a valid card belonging to someone. If a card number is typed in and even one number is out of place, the luhn-10 check will fail.

Richard, 04-15-2009
This is PHP, but the REG EXP can be used in almost any language :P

Robin Nixon, 09-11-2010
Here's a more recent script that covers more cards and has the Luhn algorithm:

http://www.pluginphp.com/plug-in32.php

aceph, 05-23-2011
Great Job, it seems like this only function might work on all kinds of credit cards :)

Mr inZen, 10-07-2012
THanx for the great post and helpful replies! Keep on Rocking!!

Donne Roma, 01-25-2013
Very important information. Thanks for sharing

Easy Commerce, 03-20-2013
Such a useful coding information. Thanks for sharing with clear code structure.

personal vpn, 12-04-2013
You have brought up very fantastic points, thank you for the post.

Kyle Johnson, 05-22-2014
Thank you I've already put the code to use.

Hire Php Developer, 01-21-2017
After a searching a lot finally found the code. Thanks a lot.
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