Help with preg_match()

I have been learning php in my spare time for nearly a year now but i cannot figure out how to use preg_match to validate a phone number of 11 digits.

Any help will be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance

 

hey,have a look at this page,may help you

http://www.issociate.de/board/goto/797255/PHP_Phone_Number_Validation.html

 

Well it depends, what is the possible format?
Numbers only?
Spaces and numbers?

If you look at the comment section of php, http://www.php.net/preg_match, you might see some phone number preg_match(...) that might help.

FFMG

 

If you only want to validate US phone numbers, strip out all non-numeric characters, and check that the length is 11 or 10 (with/out country code).

So:
+1 (123) 456-7890
Becomes:
11234567890
And it is 11 digits long so it is fine.

If you need something more complex, I'd look around for a better algorithm to use. It will take too much time working out all the rules and testing them yourself.

 

Thanks for your reply so far:

What if i ant to do simple thing like validate this sort of number: 01234567890.

i.e 11 digits with no special characters to separate them.

Thanks

 

function is_valid_number($number)
{
    return preg_match('/^\d{11}$/', $number);
}

PHP:

Like this?

 

Thanks everyone for your help: rep for you all

 

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