Re: [PHP] including parenthesis, space and dashes in a phone number

Warren Vail wrote:
Not to mention that syntax works in the US, but not large portions of the
rest of the world. (even with the 1 country code in front).

can't remember when that ever stopped an american.

e.g. Windows print subsystem that shoves 'Letter' format down
your throat as the default even though the OS knows damn well I'm
using a european locale.


Warren vail

-----Original Message-----
From: afan pasalic [mailto:afan@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 12:03 PM
To: Daevid Vincent
Cc: 'php-general'
Subject: Re: [PHP] including parenthesis, space and dashes in a phone
number

It's ok to store it this way, but it could be a little PITA when search.
E.g., you store (123) 456-7890 and somebody search for 123-456-7890?
Right?

-afan



Daevid Vincent wrote:
The kind of opposite of this, is what I use, in that it ADDs the () and
-
if ((strlen($phone)) <= 14) $phone =
preg_replace("/[^0-9]*([0-9]{3})[^0-9]*([0-9]{3})[^0-9]*([0-9]{4}).*/",
"(\\1) \\2-\\3", $phone);

-----Original Message-----
From: afan pasalic [mailto:afan@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 5:45 AM
To: php-general
Subject: [PHP] excluding parenthesis, space and dashes from
phone number

hi,
I store phone number in mysql as integer, e.g. (123) 456-7890
is stored
as 1234567890.
though, in search form they usually type in a phone number with
parenthesis/space/dashes. I have to extract numbers before I search
through mysql.

currently, I use eregi_replace() function, several times, to
do the job:
eregi_replace(' ', '', $phone);
eregi_replace('(', '', $phone);
eregi_replace(')', '', $phone);
eregi_replace('-', '', $phone);
and it works fine.

but, is there any better way? more "fancy"? :)

thanks for any help.

-afan

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