Getting Numbers

[Anon]

I'm trying to put each number of a phone number into a separate variable with little luck.

For example, a person inputs their phone number.

$phone_number = 8005478965;

And I want to get

$number1 = 8;
$number2 = 0;
$number3 = 0;
$number4 = 5;
... etc.

I have tried using
$phone_number = chunk_split($phone_number, 1);
and then
$data = explode(" ",$phone_number);

but $data[0] gives me 8 0 0 5 4 7 8 9 6 5 instead of 8.

Any suggestions.

[techek]

Have you tried using explode with an empty delimiter (aka glue) :

<?php
$bits = explode('', $phonenumber);
?>

Then $bits[0] would contain '8' and so on. (I think - it's just a guess!)

[toysrfive]

<?php

function process_string ($phone_number) {
for ($i = 0; $i < strlen ($phone_number); $i++)
{
$values[$i] = ord ($phone_number[$i]);
}
return ($values);
}

/
I dont know if this is what you were looking for...but
From the variable $phone_number,
you can access individual values within
that variable using [0],[1],[2]...etc. with use of the function above.
Ex:
$phone_number[0] = 1st number of phone #
$phone_number[1] = 2nd number of phone #
/

$phone_number = "1800COLLECT";
$values = process_string ($phone_number);
echo "THE 3rd number of ";
echo "$phone_number ";
echo ", a ";
echo "$phone_number[2] ";
echo "has an ASCII value of $values[2].";

?>

[Anon]

Try this

$number = "123456789";
$len = strlen($number);

$k=0;

for($i=0;$i<$len;$i++){
    $n = substr($number,$i,$k+1);
    echo "$n<br>";
    }

Mark
www.hdwt.com

[Anon]

can't you just call the values as if it were an array (because it is)

$phone_number = "8005551212";

echo $phone_number[0]; // returns 8
echo $phone_number[3]; // returns 5

Now if the phone number isn't always 10 digits long then you'd have to check it's length

[toysrfive]

yep....much simpler...and less code🙂