Re: Verify phone format?

If it makes you feel better, it's a site only for Canada. Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin French" <justin@indent.com.au> To: "Jeff Lewis" <jeff@hyrum.net>; <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 7:35 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Verify phone format? > The problem you have is that not all phone numbers share that format... mine > for example (Australia) is 61 3 XXXX XXXX (that is, CountryCode, State, > Exchange, Number). So it depends on who will fill out your form... if > you're talking international, you may want to think twice. > > It never ceases to frustrate me when global sites (usually based in the US > I've found) tend to think that "their way" is the only way. Countless times > where the the number format of phone numbers wouldn't let me enter my number > correctly, or the state abbreviation was only 2 chars (Australia is 3, eg > VIC), only allowing me to select a US state (no "other" option) -- but still > allowing me to select "Australia" from the country list, etc etc. > > The best way to make people conform is to break the number into multiple > boxes, for country code, area code, and number. > > You can then join them with a -, and even do some small manipulations on the > last one (eg putting a - after 4 chars, or whatever), check they're all > filled out, and then insert the completed, correctly formatted number into > the database :) > > > Cheers, > Justin > > PS there might be a class to validate to a correct international number > format, which MAY give you what you want. > > > > on 11/09/02 1:30 AM, Jeff Lewis (jeff@hyrum.net) wrote: > > > Just wondering what the best way to validate an entered phone format is? Is > > anyone doing this currently? > > > > I have a form field that people enter in information and I want to force > > phone entries to XXX-XXX-XXXX. > > > > Jeff > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > >