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1. philwareham
   Member

   Hi there,
   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.
   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.
   Thanks,
   Phil

   Posted 16 years ago #
2. 

   yuniar

   The 'international' phone format accept +XXXXXXX or XXXXXX numbers.
   The minimum length is 3 numbers and spaces are not allowed.

   If you would like to allow spaces, edit your includes/common-validator.php file.
   Search around line 145 for this code:

   function validate_simple_phone($value){
   
   	$error_message = VAL_PHONE;
   
   	if($value[0]{0} == '+'){
   		$test_value = substr($value[0],1);
   	}else{
   		$test_value = $value[0];
   	}
   
   	if(is_numeric($test_value) && (strlen($test_value) > 3)){
   		return true;
   	}else{
   		return $error_message;
   	}
   }

   
   replace it with this one:

   function validate_simple_phone($value){
   
   	$error_message = VAL_PHONE;
   
   	if($value[0]{0} == '+'){
   		$test_value = substr($value[0],1);
   	}else{
   		$test_value = $value[0];
   	}
   	$test_value = str_replace(" ","",$test_value);
   	if(is_numeric($test_value) && (strlen($test_value) > 3)){
   		return true;
   	}else{
   		return $error_message;
   	}
   }

   
   that should allow spaces.

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   MachForm Founder

   Posted 16 years ago #

3. philwareham
   Member

   That's great, thanks yuniar.
   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?
   Thanks a lot,
   Phil

   Posted 16 years ago #
4. 

   yuniar

   The easiest way to allow "-" character would be this:

   function validate_simple_phone($value){
   
   	$error_message = VAL_PHONE;
   
   	if($value[0]{0} == '+'){
   		$test_value = substr($value[0],1);
   	}else{
   		$test_value = $value[0];
   	}
   	$test_value = str_replace(array(" ","-"),"",$test_value);
   	if(is_numeric($test_value) && (strlen($test_value) > 3)){
   		return true;
   	}else{
   		return $error_message;
   	}
   }

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   MachForm Founder

   Posted 16 years ago #

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