PHP phone number parser

Question

Building an application for UK & Ireland only but potentially it might extend to other countries. We have built an API and I\'m trying to decided how A) to store phone n

Answer 1

?php
$array = array
(
        '0871231234',
        '087 123 1234',
        '087-1231234',
        '+353871231234'
);

foreach($array as $a)
        if(preg_match("/(^[0-9]{10}$)|(^[0-9]{3}\ [0-9]{3}\ [0-9]{4}$)|(^[0-9]{3}\-[0-9]{7}$)|(^\+353[0-9]{9}$)/", $a))
        {
                // removes +35
                $a = preg_replace("/^\+[0-9]{2}/", '', $a);
                // removes first number
                $a = preg_replace("/^[0-9]{1}/", '', $a);
                // removes spaces and -
                $a = preg_replace("/(\s+)|(\-)/", '', $a);
                $a = "00353".$a;
                echo $a."\n";
        }
?>