Look at the strings section of the PHP online manual. The function of
choice is probably something like str_replace(). Not sure if this is the
correct thing, but I know you can do what you want with a PHP string
function.
Good luck and make sure to keep those damn CC numbers nowhere on your
machine.
J
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>-We collect credit card info. on our site and send it to Verisign for
>-processing. We collect the credit card info. on the last page of our
>-registration form. We have about 50% of the credit card numbers declined
>-because people use dashes in their cc number (even though our directions ask
>-them not to).
>-
>-Is there anyway to incorporate the following function so that the dashes
>-would be stripped out before going directly to Verisign for processing? or
>-do I need to create a middle page that would validate the credit card info.
>-before going to Verisign? If the latter is true, then is there a way I can
>-run this validation "invisibly" - maybe using header(Location:....)?
>-
>-
>-<? function clean_no($cc_no){// Remove non-numeric characters from $cc_no return
>ereg_replace ('[^0-9]+', '', $cc_no); }?>
>-
>-
>-Thanks for your help, Shawna
>-
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