https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: Changing phone number validation en Mon, 04 May 2026 01:27:20 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/changing-phone-number-validation#post-1617 Sat, 03 May 2008 08:06:11 +0000 yuniar 1617@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>The easiest way to allow "-" character would be this:</p> <pre><code>function validate_simple_phone($value){ $error_message = VAL_PHONE; if($value[0]{0} == &#39;+&#39;){ $test_value = substr($value[0],1); }else{ $test_value = $value[0]; } $test_value = str_replace(array(&quot; &quot;,&quot;-&quot;),&quot;&quot;,$test_value); if(is_numeric($test_value) &#38;&#38; (strlen($test_value) &gt; 3)){ return true; }else{ return $error_message; } }</code></pre> <p><code></code> </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/changing-phone-number-validation#post-1610 Fri, 02 May 2008 16:00:09 +0000 philwareham 1610@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>That's great, thanks yuniar.<br /> Can I scrounge one more thing... is there any chance you could supply the above example but also including support for "-" character in the phone number?<br /> Thanks a lot,<br /> Phil </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/changing-phone-number-validation#post-1600 Fri, 02 May 2008 07:41:28 +0000 yuniar 1600@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>The 'international' phone format accept +XXXXXXX or XXXXXX numbers.<br /> The minimum length is 3 numbers and spaces are not allowed.</p> <p>If you would like to allow spaces, edit your includes/common-validator.php file.<br /> Search around line 145 for this code:</p> <pre><code>function validate_simple_phone($value){ $error_message = VAL_PHONE; if($value[0]{0} == &#39;+&#39;){ $test_value = substr($value[0],1); }else{ $test_value = $value[0]; } if(is_numeric($test_value) &#38;&#38; (strlen($test_value) &gt; 3)){ return true; }else{ return $error_message; } }</code></pre> <p><code></code><br /> replace it with this one:</p> <pre><code>function validate_simple_phone($value){ $error_message = VAL_PHONE; if($value[0]{0} == &#39;+&#39;){ $test_value = substr($value[0],1); }else{ $test_value = $value[0]; } $test_value = str_replace(&quot; &quot;,&quot;&quot;,$test_value); if(is_numeric($test_value) &#38;&#38; (strlen($test_value) &gt; 3)){ return true; }else{ return $error_message; } }</code></pre> <p><code></code><br /> that should allow spaces. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/changing-phone-number-validation#post-1588 Thu, 01 May 2008 16:39:52 +0000 philwareham 1588@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Hi there,<br /> 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.<br /> 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.<br /> Thanks,<br /> Phil </p>