Phone number validation

[jazappi]

I have searched and searched and can't seem to come up with the right function to validate a 913-555-1234, formated phone number.

Anybody have any suggestions? Links? Tuts? I can't seem to find what that works the way I want it.

-Thanks for the help in advance

[rehfeld]

off the top of my head...

function phone_number($str) {
    $nums = str_replace(array('(', ')', '-'), '', trim($str));
    if (ctype_digit($nums)) {
        $len = strlen($nums);
        if ($len === 10 || $len === 11) {
             return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

it depends how strict you want to be

[jazappi]

Parse error: parse error, expecting `')'' in c:\apache\htdocs\signup_process\agree.php on line 23

any suggestions?

I dont have to be real strict.

[rehfeld]

i edited the post. try it again

[jazappi]

I will give that a shot thanks for the help.