RICPCI Act
Don't we just love .za government? The Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-related Information (RICPCI) Act is making my life busier than usual coding various internal applications to deal with the requirements of storing and validating information users provide us with.
Using PHP and MySQL to develop the application, which is a killer combination. :)
ID Number verification is easy I wrote a simple PHP class that checks the length of the supplied ID Number, whether it complies with a complex mathematics formula to validate whether the ID Number is actually an ID Number that could be a valid ID Number.
Home Affairs currently do not have any way that one can validate the ID Number on-line to determine if that ID Number is really an ID Number.
Doing research on credit beaurix so be able to validate that the number does exist. Only problem is verifiying the photo on the ID Document, seeing that (a) fake ID's are easy to come across seeing that it is alleged that the Nigerians sell them in Sea Point as I'm told, (b) underage users sign up using his/her parents ID document, the list goes on and on.
There is no real way of verifying the data without using Home Affairs. I wish there was remote API that one could latch onto.