Re: excluding parenthesis, space and dashes from phone number

2007. 11. 30, péntek keltezéssel 08.44-kor afan pasalic ezt írta: > 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"? :) str_replace would do the job. http://hu2.php.net/str_replace $phone = str_replace(array(' ','(',')','-'), '', $phone); greets Zoltán Németh > > thanks for any help. > > -afan >