Phone number validation in PHP

Question

I need to validate phone number in PHP. I have made following regex, but I also need to it to accept numbers starting with plus char, how can I do that?

^[0-9]$         


        

Answer 1

Try this:

/^[\+]?([0-9]*)\s*\(?\s*([0-9]{3})?\s*\)?[\s\-\.]*([0-9]{3})[\s\-\.]*([0-9]{4})[a-zA-Z\s\,\.]*[x\#]*[a-zA-Z\.\s]*([\d]*)/

will match:

+1 ( 111)111-1111, #111

111-111-1111

(111)111-1111 x 1

111.111.1111x1

etc.