phone number formatting

[Shay Hurley]

this is probably a stupid question so apologies in advance.

I am trying to format a number to look like a phone number with "-"'s
between the numbers etc e.g. 15554256987 should be formatted as
1-555-425-6987.

Thanks

[Pedro Graca]

Shay Hurley wrote:

this is probably a stupid question so apologies in advance.

I am trying to format a number to look like a phone number with "-"'s
between the numbers etc e.g. 15554256987 should be formatted as
1-555-425-6987.

What have you tried?
What did you expect and what did your script do?

Are you sure all your numbers have exactly 11 digits?

Here's a 'brute force' method to insert dashes at the positions you
specified. You might want to turn it into a function ... and change the
positions (and quantity) of dashes to insert.

#v+
<?php
$number = '15554256987';

$number = substr($number, 0, 1) . '-' . substr($number, 1);
// now $number = '1-5554256987';

$number = substr($number, 0, 5) . '-' . substr($number, 5);
// now $number = '1-555-4256987';

$number = substr($number, 0, 9) . '-' . substr($number, 9);
// now $number = '1-555-425-6987';
?>
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[Agelmar]

Like Pedro said, a few problems...
what if I enter [phone], or (555)-333-3321 or [phone] or, if
I'm from germany... 011 49 030 30 30 90 (phone number of my favorite hotel
in Berlin...)

Pedro Graca wrote:

Shay Hurley wrote:

this is probably a stupid question so apologies in advance.

I am trying to format a number to look like a phone number with "-"'s
between the numbers etc e.g. 15554256987 should be formatted as
1-555-425-6987.

What have you tried?
What did you expect and what did your script do?

Are you sure all your numbers have exactly 11 digits?

Here's a 'brute force' method to insert dashes at the positions you
specified. You might want to turn it into a function ... and change
the positions (and quantity) of dashes to insert.

#v+
<?php
$number = '15554256987';

$number = substr($number, 0, 1) . '-' . substr($number, 1);
// now $number = '1-5554256987';

$number = substr($number, 0, 5) . '-' . substr($number, 5);
// now $number = '1-555-4256987';

$number = substr($number, 0, 9) . '-' . substr($number, 9);
// now $number = '1-555-425-6987';

#v-

[Shay Hurley]

Sorry, I should have been clearer in my post. I am getting a list of
numbers of different lengths, could be anything from 5 digits (directory
enquiries) to local numbers (8 digits) to international numbers (12 or
13 numbers). There is no foratting on the numbers I receive from the db
so they are just like 14567890, 11811, 15552345678, 447878787712.
Agelmar wrote:

Like Pedro said, a few problems...
what if I enter [phone], or (555)-333-3321 or [phone] or, if
I'm from germany... 011 49 030 30 30 90 (phone number of my favorite hotel
in Berlin...)

Pedro Graca wrote:

Shay Hurley wrote:

this is probably a stupid question so apologies in advance.

I am trying to format a number to look like a phone number with "-"'s
between the numbers etc e.g. 15554256987 should be formatted as
1-555-425-6987.

What have you tried?
What did you expect and what did your script do?

Are you sure all your numbers have exactly 11 digits?

Here's a 'brute force' method to insert dashes at the positions you
specified. You might want to turn it into a function ... and change
the positions (and quantity) of dashes to insert.

#v+
<?php
$number = '15554256987';

$number = substr($number, 0, 1) . '-' . substr($number, 1);
// now $number = '1-5554256987';

$number = substr($number, 0, 5) . '-' . substr($number, 5);
// now $number = '1-555-4256987';

$number = substr($number, 0, 9) . '-' . substr($number, 9);
// now $number = '1-555-425-6987';

#v-