By dibbd on

I want to make an SSN field that only allows input like 123-45-6789

Preferably it would force the dashes and of course only 11 characters (9 plus 2 dashes)

I did some searching, found there's a what appears to be very cool "Validation API" that I bet can do what I want. In fact I'm sure many people have done this already, but I can't figure out how to make this module do what I want. I went through the readme, but I didn't see what I needed to do.

I don't know PHP, so hopefully I can do what I need without it.

This is the module:
http://drupal.org/project/validation_api

Or if there's another or easier way to validate an SSN field, I'd be happy with that, but I think if I can ever figure out this API it would let me do things like phone numbers and other useful field validations.

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nevets commented

You might want to check out the Social Insurance Number module.

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dibbd commented

Perfect! I had been searching for "SSN" and "Social Security Number", hadn't heard it called SIN and Social Insurance Number before, very cool.

So I got it installed OK and selected it in a CCK field, when I submit my form, no matter what I enter I get the following message:

"999-99-9999" is not a valid US Social Insurance Numbers
Social Insurance Numbers should be like 999-99-9999 or 999999999 ...

So I even copy/pasted the 999-99-9999 and still get the same message. And no, I'm not putting the quotes around it.

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dibbd commented

I found this patch for the SSN validator, about to test it out:

http://drupal.org/node/427826

Edit: OK, so I downloaded the patch, it's a file called "sin_0.patch".

What kind of file is that, am I supposed to extract it or something? I copied it to the modules folder but it doesn't appear to do anything.

I'm probably just not applying the patch correctly?

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nevets commented

You can read about how to apply a patch here: http://drupal.org/patch/apply.

In this case it is only a small change so you could always edit sin.module and hand apply the changes in the patch file.