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Changing phone number validation

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  • Started 3 years ago by philwareham
  • Latest reply from yuniar

  1. philwareham
    Member

    Hi there,
    I wish to use the 'phone' field in a form on a UK-centric website, where there are numerous ways people can enter their phone number (for instance some numbers are ##### ###### whilst others are #### ### ##### etc). Having set the field option to 'international' I'm still getting an error message on submit to enter a valid phone number.
    Is there any way of manually adjusting the code to accommodate this? I would use the simple 'numbers' field but that does not seem to like the use of spaces.
    Thanks,
    Phil

    Posted 3 years ago #

  2. yuniar
    MachForm Founder

    The 'international' phone format accept +XXXXXXX or XXXXXX numbers.
    The minimum length is 3 numbers and spaces are not allowed.

    If you would like to allow spaces, edit your includes/common-validator.php file.
    Search around line 145 for this code:

    function validate_simple_phone($value){

	$error_message = VAL_PHONE;

	if($value[0]{0} == '+'){
		$test_value = substr($value[0],1);
	}else{
		$test_value = $value[0];
	}

	if(is_numeric($test_value) && (strlen($test_value) > 3)){
		return true;
	}else{
		return $error_message;
	}
}


    replace it with this one:

    function validate_simple_phone($value){

	$error_message = VAL_PHONE;

	if($value[0]{0} == '+'){
		$test_value = substr($value[0],1);
	}else{
		$test_value = $value[0];
	}
	$test_value = str_replace(" ","",$test_value);
	if(is_numeric($test_value) && (strlen($test_value) > 3)){
		return true;
	}else{
		return $error_message;
	}
}


    that should allow spaces.

    Posted 3 years ago #

  3. philwareham
    Member

    That's great, thanks yuniar.
    Can I scrounge one more thing... is there any chance you could supply the above example but also including support for "-" character in the phone number?
    Thanks a lot,
    Phil

    Posted 3 years ago #

  4. yuniar
    MachForm Founder

    The easiest way to allow "-" character would be this:

    function validate_simple_phone($value){

	$error_message = VAL_PHONE;

	if($value[0]{0} == '+'){
		$test_value = substr($value[0],1);
	}else{
		$test_value = $value[0];
	}
	$test_value = str_replace(array(" ","-"),"",$test_value);
	if(is_numeric($test_value) && (strlen($test_value) > 3)){
		return true;
	}else{
		return $error_message;
	}
}

    Posted 3 years ago #

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