Validating American Phone Numbers In PHP
February 15th, 2008 | by programming |Today, I’d like to show you, a simple method, which validates american phone numbers.
American phone numbers have the format of ‘XXX-XXX-XXXX’
function ValidatePhoneNumber($number)
{
if ( ereg(’^[2-9]{1}[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}$’, $number) )
return true;
else
return false;
}
Hope it helps 
By Diego on Feb 15, 2008 | Reply
Fine, but instead of doing an if check to return true I would simply return that statement like:
unction ValidatePhoneNumber($number)
{
return ereg(’^[2-9]{1}[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}$’, $number);
;
}
By programming on Feb 15, 2008 | Reply
Good point
I just wanted it to look more simply.