Re: Phone number validation

I would agree with that. When I wrote that you COULD do that.. I didn¹t mean that I do that :) If you wanted to get down and dirty and verify everything about that phone number you could.. Was what I was trying to get at. But when you had all the non-numeric characters in a phone number it makes it hard to do any type of verification since everyone seems to write their phone numbers different. Thus the reason for my advice on stripping all non-numeric characters from the phone number before checking to make sure it's a valid number or throwing it into your database in the format you want. Verifying country, city, etc codes would just be a royal pain in the @$$ and I wouldn¹t recommend it to anyone, there really is no reason to do it, but you COULD do it if you really wanted :) Cheers! Rick "Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something." - Tom Clancy > From: Miguel Cruz <mnc@stoic.net> > Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 14:08:42 -0500 (CDT) > To: Gordon Stewart <gordonisnz@yahoo.co.nz> > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Phone number validation > > On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Gordon Stewart wrote: >> Just as a curiosity - (I dont need / Want it now - Maybe later....) >> Where / what site, can we get a list of the valid country/city codes ? > > Someone else has already provided you with a site. > > I'd just add that validating international numbers against any sort of > list is bound to lead to extreme annoyance. Even telephone companies have > trouble keeping track of changes. > > miguel > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >