viavario / vies

2.1.0 2026-09-01 13:26 UTC

Requires

• php: >=5.4
• ext-soap: *

MIT

• Vincent Verbruggen

• soap
• vat
• vies
• vat number
• vat validation
• eu vat

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-09-01 13:29 UTC

README

The Viavario\Vies\VIES class allows you to validate a European VAT number and retrieve address information from the VAT Information Exchange Service.

REQUIREMENTS

• PHP 5.4 - 8.5
• SOAP extension (ext-soap)

INSTALLATION

Install with Composer:

composer require viavario/vies

Composer's autoloader will make the Viavario\Vies\VIES class available automatically. If you can't use Composer, you can instead include the class file directly:

require 'src/VIES.php';
use Viavario\Vies\VIES;

Old, unnamespaced usage

Earlier versions of this package exposed a global VIES class. If your project still does require 'services/VIES.php'; new VIES();, that continues to work unchanged — services/VIES.php loads the namespaced class and aliases it to the old global name. New code should use Viavario\Vies\VIES via Composer instead.

USAGE

use Viavario\Vies\VIES;

$vies = new VIES();
$valid = $vies->checkVAT('BE 0883.923.584'); // true or false
$info = $vies->getInfo('BE 0883.923.584'); // object with information, or false

The constructor accepts an optional array of SoapClient options, which are merged over the class defaults (exceptions enabled, WSDL caching disabled, a 10 second connection timeout):

$vies = new VIES(array('connection_timeout' => 5));