NYCPHP Meetup

[Chris Shiflett]

--- Jeff Siegel <jsiegel1 at optonline.net> wrote:
> I believe that the storing of the phone numbers would fall under the 
> "display agnostic" theory as noted in the PHundamentals article on 
> storing and retrieving data.

Yeah, although there's the theoretical problem of leading zeroes. However,
as long as it's a number in the US, you can be sure that no such number
exists. In fact, I often check for valid area codes in my data filtering
logic.

I'm not as certain about international numbers, but I'm sure you can find
a definitive list. You could also store this data separately, since it's
not really part of the phone number itself.

Chris

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