Validating phone numbers

toastyman · 12 Jun 2006 at 10:41

Does anyone have any well tested methods for validating phone numbers on websites?

Up till now, i've been using the following regular expression in PHP:

Code:

if (!ereg("^\s*\(?(020[7,8]{1}\)?[ ]?[1-9]{1}[0-9{2}[ ]?[0-9]{4})|(0[1-8]{1}[0-9]{3}\)?[ ]?[1-9]{1}[0-9]{2}[ ]?[0-9]{3})\s*$",$phonehomecontact)) {

but just discovered two phone numbers do not work:
01949 12345
0116 1234567

Does anyone else have any regular expressions which do the job, or another method?

Cheers,
Rich

Beansprout · 12 Jun 2006 at 12:00

http://regexlib.com/REDetails.aspx?regexp_id=297

http://regexlib.com/Search.aspx

"UK phone number"

toastyman · 12 Jun 2006 at 15:04

Spot on. you've done it again

zetec452 · 12 Jun 2006 at 15:18

Beany has every webpage url embedded into his mind. He is the human googlebot :eek:

Sic · 12 Jun 2006 at 15:28

i was thinking that!! i've productively used about 6 links he's posted in the last week. he'll make a great blagger's assistant.

does anyone think they're up to the challenge of coding "virtual Beansprout"?? i could do with a Java version for my phone

Beansprout · 12 Jun 2006 at 15:33

I'm pretty sure you can get Google on a phone :cool:

I pick up links across my travels, especially links linked to from links linked to by Augmented and, well, any forum posts I see which look useful