A Short Function to Format Phone Numbers
September 22, 2008
I found this somewhere and thought it was useful. If you need to automatically format phone numbers, this is a small lightweight function to do it.
<?php
function format_phone($phone)
{
$phone = preg_replace("/[^0-9]/", "", $phone);
if(strlen($phone) == 7)
return preg_replace("/([0-9]{3})([0-9]{4})/", "$1-$2", $phone);
elseif(strlen($phone) == 10)
return preg_replace("/([0-9]{3})([0-9]{3})([0-9]{4})/", "($1) $2-$3", $phone);
else
return $phone;
}
?>









