idealpostcodes_address_validation.module

<?php

/**
 * @file
 * Provides address validation
 */


/**
 * main validation function
 */
function idealpostcodes_address_validation_validate($address, $postal_code) {



//    // testing.
//    return FALSE;

    try {
        //$address_query = "10 Downing Street London";
        $address_query = $address;

        //$api_key  = "iddqd";
        $api_key  = 'ak_k2vs8hugvLlmGhvruHhzL6Ijesna3';
        $base_url = "https://api.ideal-postcodes.co.uk/v1/addresses";
        //$url      = $base_url . "?api_key=" . $api_key . "&query=" .  rawurlencode($address_query);
        $url      = $base_url . "?api_key=" . $api_key
            . "&query=" .  rawurlencode($address_query)
            . "&postcode=" .  rawurlencode($postal_code);

        $ch       = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
        $response = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);
        curl_close($ch);
        if (!isset($response["result"])) {
            // @todo - log as an issue with the API
            $code = $response['code'];
            $message = $response['message'];
            // We will not check the address if no result found
            return TRUE;
        }
        else {
            $addresses = $response["result"];
            if ($addresses['total'] == 1) {
                return TRUE;
            } else {
                return FALSE;
            }
        }

    } catch (Exception $e) {
        // @todo - log as an issue with the API
        return TRUE;

    }



}