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

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@afan.net] > 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 > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >