I'm completely new to PHP (jumped ship this week from MSAccess and ASP to MySql and PHP) and I'd appreciate some help with leading zeros in telephone numbers.
I've got a field with type VARCHAR(20) which contains phone numbers. Unfortunately, the numbers containing leading zeros (0018005555555) or the international calling sign "+" (eg +18005555555) appears briefly (for about a second) then disappears when viewed in a browser (IE7) - refreshing the screen gets the same results. Here's what I've worked out.
Mozilla Firefox works fine (ie displays fine).
IE7 produces the problem.
Numbers beginning with 0 are ok.
Numbers beginning with 00 or + are the problem.
The data is there in the table (no problems with mySQL).
There are not changes being made to the table at the time.
The table column width is big enough.
The field length is being enough. - <td width="160"><?php echo $row_rsMusic['Phone1']; ?></td>
I'm wondering if it's PHP or javascript (which I know even less about, sadly).
Many thanks in advance.
4  2749  Atli 5,058
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Hi Vlinder. Welcome to TSDN!
That sounds weird.
Can you take a look at the source view in a browsers that is giving you this problem and check if the number in there is as it should be?
If it is, this might be a bug in the browsers rendering engine. (In IE's case that would not be a huge surprise.). You may want to try splitting it and displaying it in two (or more) separate pieces.
If it is not, it could be a problem with either your SQL queries or your PHP code (or JavaScript if that's somehow involved), in which case it will help if you posted the code here. (In [code] tags please).
Had brain wave whilst chopping an onion (ahem): could it be the Skype add on?
Disabled the Skype add on in IE7 and the numbers are now displaying fine.
Now I just have to find a way of getting the Skype add on to recognize the international numbers. Any ideas?
Sorry for posting in the wrong forum though.
Atli 5,058
Recognized Expert Expert
I'm not familiar with the Skype add-on.
But if disabling it fixed the problem I would have to guess the add-on is either doing something really smart that we don't understand, or something really stupid that it's developers didn't design it for.
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