Re: validate phone numbers

There are so many combinations of European phone numbers, along with the possible combinations of area codes, and hyphens or spaces may be used as well, I wouldn't bother. If the phone number is critical, and important to the person using your site, then treatitlike a password and have them enter it twice. Although in that case they are likely to enter it correctly anyway. One can only do so much. Miles Thompson At 07:24 PM 6/19/01 -0700, Richard Kurth wrote:

I am using this script to validate for phone numbers and it work just perfect for US phone numbers. But it rejects some European and Australian numbers what do I need to do to make it validate all phone numbers if (($WPHONE_NO) || ($wphone_no)) { $wphone_no = trim($wphone_no); if ($WPHONE_NO)

      $phone_no = trim($WPHONE_NO);

if (!ereg("(^(.*)[0-9]{3})(.*)([0-9]{3})(.*)([0-9]{4}$)", $wphone_no)) {

      print_error("your <b>phone number</b> is invalid");

} } Best regards, Richard mailto:rkurth@pacifier.com