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phone number verification filter

Awestruck

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Posted August 13, 2009 at 7:18PM

In my PHP form handler I use this filter

//CHECK THAT NO TEXT HAS BEEN ENTERED IN THE PHONE FIELD
if (!is_numeric($phone)){
header ("Location: $errorphoneurl");
exit ;
}

However, many people tend to include spaces, how can my filter also accept spaces?

Regards

Awestruck

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OTT_Buzzard

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Posted August 14, 2009 at 2:23AM

I can't give an exact answer (i've only recently started learning PHP myself!), but click here looks like it should do what you want...search for "blank" strings and replace with nothing.

hope it works for you!

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tobyb121

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Posted August 17, 2009 at 10:01PM

remove all the spaces with:
$phone=str_replace(' ',',$phone);

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Awestruck

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Posted August 18, 2009 at 11:05PM

OTT_Buzzard your suggestion was not suitable but it showed me an excellent PHP resource. Thank you.

tobyb121, your suggestion did the trick. Many thanks.

Best wishes
Awestruck

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