In this article, we will learn how to format phone numbers using PHP. When we need to store a phone number then we store the formatting phone number. Using PHP, we can easily format phone numbers.
Approach: In this article, we will format the phone number using the preg_match() method. We can use this method to format phone numbers. This function has special characteristics of finding specified patterns from string.
PHP code: The following is the complete code to format phone numbers using preg_match().
PHP
<?php // Create a formatting function function formatting( $phone ){
// Pass phone number in preg_match function
if (preg_match(
'/^\+[0-9]([0-9]{3})([0-9]{3})([0-9]{4})$/' ,
$phone , $value )) {
// Store value in format variable
$format = $value [1] . '-' .
$value [2] . '-' . $value [3];
}
else {
// If given number is invalid
echo "Invalid phone number <br>" ;
}
// Print the given format
echo ( "$format" . "<br>" );
} // Call the function formatting( "+02025550170" );
formatting( "+01677942758" );
?> |
Output:
202-555-0170 167-794-2758