• 26 May 2013 - Since the new version attracted too many spammy registrations (around 250 fake accounts/day), user registrations are now protected by Mollom's spam protection service. Contact us if this causes some trouble.
  • 01 May 2013 - After the site upgrade, all passwords were reset and you will need to ask the site for a login reset on your first connection.

VIES client

screenshot for VIES clientThe VIES client allows querying of the EU VAT database system to check the validity of VAT numbers. This is a fairly essential function to businesses within the EU, and avoids having to use the standard browser-based service, by relying on SOAP RPC, which allows access from within any application

The application can be used standalone, but is is mainly intended as an example of how to include SOAP services within PHP-GTK2 applications.

To this end, the application page describes in full detail how it is built, from adding the SOAP extension to laying out the UI.


  • You can find it at blog.riff.org.
  • Author: Frederic G. MARAND
  • License: CeCILL 2.0.