passing phone numbers in forms

[kidestranged]

I'm trying to pass phone numbers from a form using the get method. I want to be able to interpret the numbers regardless of the format that the user chooses.
The problem is that when the user uses parentheses to isolate the area code, the info gets screwed up.

e.g.
cell=[phone]
returns:
cell=%28484%29+431-3164

I don't think that stripslashes will clean this up. Any suggestions?

[Anon]

indeed, addslashes() only works on single quote ('), double quote ("), backslash () and NUL (the NULL byte).

You could preprocess the user input with an ereg() expression to replace parentheses with spaces, for eg.

Or you could use urlencode() to make it more friendly to passing through pages, and then urldecode() to get back the original value.