Regular Expression to Phone Number HELP, Please...

Discussion in 'Programming' started by fdoze, Dec 8, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hi,

    I'm trying to validate a phone number... And I need a Regular Expression to test phone numbers like this:

    02x xxx xx xx Or 03x xxx xx xx... How can I do it? With and without the spaces between numbers...


    Could you please help me on this?

    Many Thanks in advance!!
     
    fdoze, Dec 8, 2010 IP
  2. Cozmic

    Cozmic Member

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    Here's a class I wrote for someone else on DP:

    class phoneNumber {
        public $nums;
        
        function __construct($num) {
            $this->set($num);
        }
        
        function set($num) {
            $num = preg_split('//', $num);
            foreach ($num as $key => $value) if (!is_numeric($value)) unset($num[$key]);
            
            if (count($num) < 10 OR count($num) > 11) {
                trigger_error("WOOPS! The phone number is not valid. The length ".count($num)." isn't enough.");
                exit;
            }
            
            $num = array_merge(array(), $num);
            $this->nums = $num;
        }
        
        function get() {
            $nums = $this->nums;
            if (count($nums) == 11) {
                $num = $nums[1].$nums[2].$nums[3]."-".$nums[4].$nums[5].$nums[6]."-".$nums[7].$nums[8].$nums[9].$nums[10];
            } else if (count($nums) == 10) {
                $num = $nums[0].$nums[1].$nums[2]."-".$nums[3].$nums[4].$nums[5]."-".$nums[6].$nums[7].$nums[8].$nums[9];
            }
            return $num;
        }
    }
    Code (markup):
    usage:

    $somePhoneNumber = "1 234 567 8901"
    $pn = new phoneNumber($somePhoneNumber);
    echo $pn->get();
    Code (markup):
    Not a regex, but better IMO.
     
    Cozmic, Dec 8, 2010 IP
  3. hyutars

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  4. fdoze

    fdoze Peon

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    I need to use the Regular Expression inside a Mootools Javascript Form.Validator script...

    Im on Mac, any tool for Mac Osx?

    Thanks.
     
    fdoze, Dec 9, 2010 IP
  5. fdoze

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    Anyone??

    Thanks...
     
    fdoze, Dec 10, 2010 IP