php-iban is a library for parsing and validating IBAN (and IIBAN) bank account information in PHP.

All parts of an IBAN an be retrieved, including country code, checksum, BBAN, financial institution or bank code, and where a fixed-length national system is in use, also branch/sort code and account number. IBANs can also be converted between human and machine representation. Finally, intelligent suggestions for originally intended input can be made when an incorrect IBAN is detected and is due to mistranscription error.

The parser was built using regular expressions to adapt the contents of the official IBAN registry available from SWIFT at http://www.swift.com/products_services/bic_and_iban_format_registration_iban_format_r then only manually modified for special cases such as errors and omissions in SWIFT's official specifications: https://php-iban.googlecode.com/git/trunk/docs/COMEDY-OF-ERRORS

Various deficiencies in the initial adaptation have since been rectified, and the current version should be a fairly correct and reliable implementation.

Where appropriate, European Committee for Banking Standards (ECBS) recommendations have also been incorporated. (Presently, presentation is affected, however the uppercase only requirement is not enforced. In future, an uppercase-only 'strict ECBS checking' mode may be implemented.)

Please bear in mind that because the specification changes frequently, it may not be 100% up to date if a new version has been recently released - I do my best though.

Licensed under LGPL, it is free to use in commercial settings.

Corrected SWIFT URL to IBAN page. Emphasized mistranscription error support.

Finally, google has killed code.google.com and we have migrated to Github! Once the old trunk/tag structure (lingering from svn) is cleaned up and this document translated from the old wiki format to markdown, a new version will be issued.

Version 1.4.6 has been released:

• Fixes for Jordan and Qatar. Turns out both of them have broken TXT registry entries, PDF entries differ and the PDF is the one to go for (familiar story).
• Some further improvements.

Unfortunately, Google now requires code.google.com projects to use Google Drive. I tried to use Google Drive (sign up for a new account, jump through email hoops, get treated as a robot, learn stupid new touchy-feely-friendly interface, get meaningless error messages like 'Your sharing limit has been exceeded' (with 2x290KB files on a new account I was told to create) and lost patience entirely.

So for the moment, you'll just have to download using git, instead. I will migrate php-iban to Github shortly. Google really is a pain in the ass recently, what with all of this Google+ and Google Drive junk, ruining Picasa, ruining Sketchup by lack of attention, etc. What are they thinking?

Version 1.4.5 has been released:

• Addition of Jordan and Qatar
• Minor changes to documentation and support scripts.

Version 1.4.4 has been released:

• Fix SEPA status of Croatia (HR)
• Subsqeuent SEPA status audit based upon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area turned up some other status issues (this information is not contained within the official IBAN registry)
  • Faroe Islands, Greenland, San Marino status fixed. Everything else apparently hunky dory.

The project source code repository has switched from svn (ugh) to git (yay!).

• This should make future changes less painful.

Version 1.4.3 has been released:

• Add Aland Islands (AX), part of Finland (FI) that is only documented in the SEPA status field of Finland and does not have its own entry or mention elsewhere in the IBAN registry document.
  • Consider but do not add either of the somewhat similar Canary Islands (CI) or Ceuta/Melilla (EA) - both minor territories of Spain (ES) - due to lack of any evidence of usage.
• Fix SEPA status for Spain (ES), Finland (FI), Porgual (PT) due to registry values being mixed with free text.
  • Document this and further issues with the official IBAN registry document, both as documentation in docs/COMEDY-OF-ERRORS and inline within the registry converter.
• Update human country name of Palestine to better mirror current registry document ("State of" is dropped as is the reigning style, so simply "Palestine" is presented)
• Updating an outstanding last modified date within the registry from the previous release

Version 1.4.2 has been released:

• Resolve issue #19: incorrect SEPA status of France/French territories due to a parser bug. (Thanks to the reporter)

Version 1.4.1 has been released:

• Requests
  • Attempts to intelligently calculate the 'account' portion of a BBAN based upon the (non-)presence of a branch ID and bank ID portion, by request (for Germany/Austria. Previously this was requested for the Netherlands, however this solution should fix results for everyone!)
  • Add 'IIBAN' prefix removal support to machine format conversion function
  • Add gmp disable flag ($__disable_iiban_gmp_extension=true;)
• Silence warnings on some PHP engine configurations
• Update Brazil record (minor)
• No longer redistribute IBAN registry in .txt format
• Improve inline documentation

Version 1.4.1 is still being prepared, squashing some bugs and updating the registry ... meanwhile, it has come to my attention that we have been featured in the Code Candy blog! http://www.codecandies.com/2012/05/30/no-exceptions/ Hooray for the German sense of humour! Hahah.

Version 1.4.0 has been released:

• Resolves an issue reported affecting the last few versions when attempting to generate a correct checksum for a checksum-invalid IBAN.
• Adds VERSION file, to include hard version information in source tree, by request.

Version 1.3.9 has been released:

• Resolves issue reported in 1.3.7 re-enables the more efficient PHP gmp library based checksum code (thanks to rpkamp)

Version 1.3.8 has been released:

• An error in checksum processing for some IBANs using the new gmp library based MOD97 routine (only affects users with php-iban 1.3.7 and the PHP gmp library enabled) has been reported. As an immediate workaround 1.3.8 is being released with the following changes: ** Code from 1.3.6 ** Registry from 1.3.7

Version 1.3.7 has been released:

• Added Brazil
• Added two new French overseas territories
• Reduced 'Moldova' to normalized short-form name
• Large CPU efficiency improvement in IBAN validation routine (16x if PHP gmp extension is installed, 5x otherwise. Special thanks to algorithmic contributor Chris and to engineers everywhere upholding the Germanic tradition of precision and efficiency! Alas, I am but part-German, for shame...)
• Minor internal/tool updates
• Some comedy of errors additions

Version 1.3.6 has been released:

• Update IIBAN format for latest IETF draft.

Version 1.3.5 has been released:

• Correct lack of support for lower case alphabetic characters (ie. non ECBS-compliant) in human to machine format conversion function.

Version 1.3.4 has been released:

• Add reference to the latest ECBS recommendations and include them in documentation.

Version 1.3.3 has been released:

• Very minor efficiency improvement.

Version 1.3.2 has been released:

• Registry updates
  • Added Palestinian Territories
  • Moldova fixed its format
  • Finland fixed its bank identifier location
  • Saudi Arabia - remove spurious trailing space in example

Version 1.3.1 has been released:

• New countries added
  • Azerbaijan (AZ)
  • Costa Rica (CR)
  • Guatemala (GT)
  • Moldova (MD)
  • Pakistan (PK)
  • British Virgin Islands (VG)
• Miscellaneous updates
  • Normalize/simplify examples (FI,PT,SA)
  • Normalize/simplify human country name (BH,LI,MK)
  • Documentation updates

Version 1.3.0 has been released. This release adds mistranscription error suggestion support.

Version 1.2.0 has been released. This release adds Internet International Bank Account Number (IIBAN) support, as per the current IIBAN Internet Draft at http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iiban-01

Version 1.1.2 has been released. This adds long open tags to the main library file in order to simplify deployment on many default PHP installations.

Version 1.1.1 has been released. This fixes a typo in a function call in the new OO wrapper. Non OO users do not need to upgrade.

Version 1.1.0 has been released. This version adds an object oriented wrapper library and related updates to documentation and test scripts. It is not critical for existing users to upgrade.

Version 1.0.0 has been released. This version includes the following changes:

• Support for the SEPA flag ("Is this country a member of the Single Euro Payments Area?"), both in the registry and with a new function iban_country_is_sepa($iban_country)
• Placeholder support for converting machine format IBAN to human format (simply adds a space every four characters) with the function iban_to_human_format($iban)
• Fixed a series of domestic example issues in the registry file that had been imported from SWIFT's own broken IBAN registry
• Normalised example fields in the registry to better facilitate use in automated contexts (Austria, Germany, etc.)
• Updated test code
• Added a significant amount of new documentation
• *Reorganised file layout•
• Moved to x.y.z format versioning and use of subversion 'tags' in conjunction with the 1.0.0 release.

Earlier in the month... Small maintenance release, not critical.

• The split() function has been replaced with explode() to prevent warnings (or error on very new PHP engines)
• Resolved an issue on PHP environments configured to display warnings would display a warning when an IBAN input to be validated did not include a prefix that was a valid IBAN country code. (Nobody should be running production PHP environments with such warnings enabled, anyway!)

• We are now well over 1000 downloads: not bad considering how specific this project is!
• If you are using php-iban, you are encouraged to join the [http://groups.google.com/group/php-iban-users mailing list]. This way you can get news of updates and announcements (very infrequent, but better than not knowing!)
• A new version has been released that fixes many important changes to the official registry, plus adds some new features.
  • Add New French Territories (GF,GP,MQ,RE) Older versions of the specification did not include the GF,GP,MQ,RE French territories, only the PF,TF,YT,NC,PM,WF French territories. The new territories have now been added to the database.
  • Add New Countries We welcome Bahrain (BH), Dominican Republic (DO), Khazakstan (KZ), United Arab Emirates (AE) to the database.
  • Format/example updates There have apparently been some minor format/example changes, these have been rolled in to existing countries.
  • Inclusion of altered IBAN_Registry.txt Errors and omissions have been found within the official IBAN_Registry.txt file, namely the exclusion of Khazakstan (KZ) and only partial information on Kuwait (KW), and errors in both of these countries' PDF specifications. This is SWIFT's fault: shame on them! I suspect they have changed staff recently. Anyway, a version of IBAN_Registry.txt with these problems solved is now distributed along with php-iban.
  • Fix for Tunisia Strangely I visited Tunisia during the revolution in January this year. Sorry to the Tunisian people for getting their IBAN format wrong! TN59 + 20 digits is the correct format. This is now included in the new registry file.
  • Fix for Albania The SWIFT format information was updated for Albania. (Did not affect validation, since this uses regular expressions which were already correct)
  • Additional and revised documentation Further documentation has been added to the project.
  • Automated IBAN_Registry.txt fix/conversion tool A new convert-registry tool has been added to the project that attempts to automatically normalise/fix problems with the official SWIFT .txt specification as much as possible. Note that this is not enough to get a good registry.txt file (the internal format used by php-iban) as SWIFT's .txt release excludes entire countries in the PDF specification. In addition, there are some errors in the PDF specification that need to be manually resolved at present. These can be seen resolved in the IBAN_Registry.txt file.

*We now have a http://groups.google.com/group/php-iban-users mailing list. Feel free to post your feedback, queries or suggestions - we'd love to know how you are using the library. To date, the project has reached over 400 downloads and still going strong, with more than one new user per day - a pretty good showing for a specialised library!

*version 12 has been released. The registry file has been improved, partly as a result of user reports and partly as a result of issues uncovered while performing automated tests against version 11.

• Corrected header row Two columns were not represented in the title (bban_length and iban_length). They have now been added.

• Fixes to registry entries for French Territories (PF,TF,YT,NC,PM,WF) French territories are not explicitly included in the SWIFT specification textfile. They were duplicated from France according to an unstructured comments against that entry. Example IBANs were then made for illustrative purposes by simply modifying the country prefix without regenerating the checksums. The IBAN examples included for these territories should now be correct.

• Gibraltar and Hungary (GI,HU) Fixed a bug where both territories had a superfluous colon appended to their regular expressions after initial document conversion, which was causing validation failures for all IBANs in those countries.

• Mauritius (MU) Corrected IBAN length expectation from 31 to 30.

• Sweden (SE) Example IBAN had been manually modified from IBAN specification example early in development and did not pass checksum. The IBAN official example has been restored.

• Tunisia (TN) Corrected improper validation strings caused by a bug in initial document conversion (IBAN format-specifier to regular-expression conversion function).

require_once('php-iban.php');
# ... your code utilising IBAN functions...

# Verify an IBAN number.  Returns true or false.
#  Input can be either printed form ('IBAN xx xx xx...') or machine form ('xxxxx')
if(!verify_iban($iban)) {
 # ...
}

# Check the checksum of an IBAN - code modified from Validate_Finance PEAR class
if(!iban_verify_checksum($iban)) {
 # ...
}

# Suggest what the user really meant in the case of transcription errors
$suggestions = iban_mistranscription_suggestions($bad_iban);
if(count($suggestions) == 1) {
 print "You really meant " . $suggestions[0] . ", right?\n";
}

# Find the correct checksum for an IBAN
$correct_checksum = iban_find_checksum($iban);

# Set the correct checksum for an IBAN
$fixed_iban = iban_set_checksum($iban);

# Convert an IBAN to machine format.  To do this, we
# remove IBAN from the start, if present, and remove
# non basic roman letter / digit characters
$machine_iban = iban_to_machine_format($iban);

# Convert an IBAN to human format.  To do this, we
# add a space every four characters.
$human_iban = iban_to_human_format($iban);

# Get the name of an IBAN country
$country_name = iban_country_get_country_name($iban_country);

# Get the domestic example for an IBAN country
$country_domestic_example = iban_country_get_domestic_example($iban_country);

# Get the BBAN example for an IBAN country
$country_bban_example = iban_country_get_bban_example($iban_country);

# Get the BBAN format (in SWIFT format) for an IBAN country
$country_bban_format_as_swift = iban_country_get_bban_format_swift($iban_country);

# Get the BBAN format (as a regular expression) for an IBAN country
$country_bban_format_as_regex = iban_country_get_bban_format_regex($iban_country);

# Get the BBAN length for an IBAN country
$country_bban_length = iban_country_get_bban_length($iban_country);

# Get the IBAN example for an IBAN country
$country_iban_example = iban_country_get_iban_example($iban_country);

# Determine whether an IBAN country is a member of SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area)
if(!iban_country_is_sepa($iban_country)) {
 # ... do something xenophobic ...
}

# Get an array of all the parts from an IBAN
$iban_parts = iban_get_parts($iban);

# Get the country part from an IBAN
$iban_country = iban_get_country_part($iban);

# Get the BBAN part from an IBAN
$bban = iban_get_bban_part($iban);

# Get the Bank ID (institution code) from an IBAN
$bank = iban_get_bank_part($iban);

# Get the Branch ID (sort code) from an IBAN
#  (NOTE: only available for some countries)
$sortcode = iban_get_branch_part($iban);

# Get the (branch-local) account ID from an IBAN
#  (NOTE: only available for some countries)
$account = iban_get_account_part($iban);

# Get the checksum part from an IBAN
$checksum = iban_get_checksum_part($iban);

# Perform MOD97-10 checksum calculation
$mod97_10 = iban_mod97_10($string);

# Character substitution required for IBAN MOD97-10 checksum validation/generation
$mod97_internal_stuff = iban_checksum_string_replace($s);

OO use is discouraged as there is a present-day trend to overuse the model. However, if you prefer OO PHP then by all means use the object oriented wrapper, described below.

require_once('oophp-iban.php');
# ... your code utilising object oriented PHP IBAN functions...

# Example instantiation
$iban = 'AZ12345678901234'
$myIban = new IBAN($iban);

# Verify an IBAN number.  Returns true or false.
#  Input can be either printed form ('IBAN xx xx xx...') or machine form ('xxxxx')
if(!$myIban->Verify()) {
 # ...
}

# Check the checksum of an IBAN - code modified from Validate_Finance PEAR class
if(!$myIban->VerifyChecksum()) {
 # ...
}

# Suggest what the user really meant in the case of mistranscription errors
$suggestions = $badIban->MistranscriptionSuggestions();
if(count($suggestions)==1) {
 print "You really meant " . $suggestions[0] . ", right?\n";
}

# Find the correct checksum for an IBAN
$correct_checksum = $myIban->FindChecksum();

# Set the correct checksum for an IBAN
$fixed_iban = $myIban->SetChecksum()

# Convert an IBAN to machine format.  To do this, we
# remove IBAN from the start, if present, and remove
# non basic roman letter / digit characters
$machine_iban = $myIban->MachineFormat();

# Convert an IBAN to human format.  To do this, we
# add a space every four characters.
$human_iban = $myIban->HumanFormat();

# To list countries, use the IBAN Class...
$myIban->Countries();

# ... everything else is in the IBANCountry class.

# Example instantiation
$countrycode = 'DE';
$myCountry = new IBANCountry($countrycode);

# Get the name of an IBAN country
$country_name = $myCountry->Name();

# Get the domestic example for an IBAN country
$country_domestic_example = $myCountry->DomesticExample();

# Get the BBAN example for an IBAN country
$country_bban_example = $myCountry->BBANExample();

# Get the BBAN format (in SWIFT format) for an IBAN country
$country_bban_format_as_swift = $myCountry->BBANFormatSWIFT();

# Get the BBAN format (as a regular expression) for an IBAN country
$country_bban_format_as_regex = $myCounty->BBANFormatRegex();

# Get the BBAN length for an IBAN country
$country_bban_length = $myCountry->BBANLength();

# Get the IBAN example for an IBAN country
$country_iban_example = $myCountry->IBANExample();

# Determine whether an IBAN country is a member of SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area)
if(!$myCountry->IsSEPA()) {
 # ... do something xenophobic ...
}

# Get an array of all the parts from an IBAN
$iban_parts = $myIban->Parts();

# Get the country part from an IBAN
$iban_country = $myIban->Country();

# Get the BBAN part from an IBAN
$bban = $myIban->BBAN();

# Get the Bank ID (institution code) from an IBAN
$bank = $myIban->Bank();

# Get the Branch ID (sort code) from an IBAN
#  (NOTE: only available for some countries)
$sortcode = $myIban->Branch();

# Get the (branch-local) account ID from an IBAN
#  (NOTE: only available for some countries)
$account = $myIban->Account();

# Get the checksum part from an IBAN
$checksum = $myIban->Checksum();