[thelist] Testing Credit Card Entry Forms

Keith cache at dowebscentral.com
Thu Feb 14 19:43:01 CST 2002


> In the process of testing the shopping cart I'm building, is there a
> way of testing the credit card input form without actually having to
> use a real credit card number? Like a fully operational "dummy number"
> that can be entered into a form? This won't be used in any real-time
> processing system, just testing form validation and data capture.

Any string of zeros will pass the luhn-10 credit card test because
the test must sum to a zero remainder on a mod-10 calc. One zero
or more will do.

keith



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