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[Ben Ramsey]

Try this link and see if it helps you easily capture the phone number data:
http://benramsey.com/archive/cat/making_it_valid/making_it_valid_telephone_numbers.php

Then, after using the code at that link, just do:
$newphone = $area_code . '-' . $exchange . '-' . $number;

That should do it for you.


harvey wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to 'normalize' phone numbers that are submitted via a 
> form, so that they all appear as xxx-xxx-xxxx. I'm sure there's a more 
> elegant way of doing it, but the following seems to work-- almost. But 
> the trim part does not actually trim. I'm sure it has something to do 
> with the type/case of the content submitted or the quotation marks or 
> something like that. If I replace the GetSQL statement with ' (212) 
> 555-1212    ', it works fine. I tried dropping the GetSQL and just using 
> the $_Post, tried putting single and double quotes, etc. Any ideas? Thanks!
> 
>     $phone = GetSQLValueString($_POST['phone'],"text");
>     $phone = trim($phone);
>     $replace = array (") ","."," ");
>     $newphone = str_replace($replace,"-",$phone);
>     $newphone = str_replace("(","",$newphone);
> 
> 
> This is the GetSQLValueString function that Dreamweaver creates 
> automatically:
> 
> function GetSQLValueString($theValue, $theType, $theDefinedValue = "", 
> $theNotDefinedValue = "")
> { $theValue = (!get_magic_quotes_gpc()) ? addslashes($theValue) : 
> $theValue;
>    switch ($theType) {
>     case "text": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : 
> "NULL"; break;
>     case "long":
>     case "int": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? intval($theValue) : 
> "NULL"; break;
>     case "double": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . 
> doubleval($theValue) . "'" : "NULL"; break;
>     case "date": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? "'" . $theValue . "'" : 
> "NULL"; break;
>     case "defined": $theValue = ($theValue != "") ? $theDefinedValue : 
> $theNotDefinedValue; break; }
>   return $theValue; }

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Ben Ramsey
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