NAME

Gantry::Utils::Validate - Validates input values.

SYNOPSIS

$chk = Gantry::Utils::Validate->new();

if ( $chk->is_date( $date ) )

if ( $chk->is_email( $email ) )

if ( $chk->is_float( $float ) )

if ( $chk->is_ident( $ident ) )

if ( $chk->is_integer( $integer ) )

if ( $chk->is_ip( $ip ) )

if ( $chk->is_mac( $mac ) )

if ( $chk->is_number( $number ) )

if ( $chk->is_text( $text ) )

if ( $chk->is_time( $time ) )

DESCRIPTION

This module allows the validation of many common types of input.

METHODS

new

Standard constructor, call it first. It takes nothing.

is_date( $date )

This function takes a date, $date, and verifies that it is indeed a valid date. The date must be of the form "MM-DD-YYYY". The fucntion returns either '1' or '0'.

is_email( $email )

This function checks to see if $email is a valid email address. It checks only the form of the email address and not if the username or the domain exist. The function returns either '1' or '0'.

is_float( $float )

This function checks to see if $float is a valid floating point number. The function returns either '1' or '0'.

is_ident( $ident )

This function checks to see if $ident is a valid text ident. This means it has text, and none of the text is a space. The function returns either '1' or '0'.

is_integer( $integer )

This function checks to see if $integer is in fact a valid integer number. The function returns either '1' or '0'.

is_ip( $ip )

This function checks to see if $ip is a valid ip address. The function returns either '1' or '0'.

is_mac( $mac )

This function checks to see if $mac contains the valid characters for a MAC address. It does not currently check to see if the MAC address is of the proper length. The function returns either '1' or '0'.

is_number( $number )

This function checks to see if $number is a valid number. It does this by checking if it passes is_integer() or is_float(). The function returns eiter a '1' or a '0'.

is_text( $text )

This function checks to see if $text does contain text. This is a fairly broad range of things mainly it must be defined and have a length that is greater than 0. The function returns either a '1' or a '0'.

is_time( $time )

This function checks to see if $time does contain a valid time. A valid date is in military time ( 0-23:0-59 ) seconds are optional.

SEE ALSO

Gantry(3), Date::Calc(3)

LIMITATIONS

This module depends on Date::Calc(3) for the is_date validation.

AUTHOR

Tim Keefer <tkeefer@gmail.com>

Nicholas Studt <nstudt@angrydwarf.org>

COPYRIGHT and LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2005-6, Tim Keefer.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.