In this article, we will learn how to format phone numbers using PHP. When we need to store a phone number then we store the formatting phone number. Using PHP, we can easily format phone numbers.
Approach: In this article, we will format the phone number using the preg_match() method. We can use this method to format phone numbers. This function has special characteristics of finding specified patterns from string.Â
PHP code: The following is the complete code to format phone numbers using preg_match().
PHP
<?php   // Create a formatting function function formatting($phone){           // Pass phone number in preg_match function     if(preg_match(         '/^\+[0-9]([0-9]{3})([0-9]{3})([0-9]{4})$/',     $phone, $value)) {               // Store value in format variable         $format = $value[1] . '-' .             $value[2] . '-' . $value[3];     }     else {                  // If given number is invalid         echo "Invalid phone number <br>";     }           // Print the given format     echo("$format" . "<br>"); }    // Call the function formatting("+02025550170");   formatting("+01677942758"); ?> |
Output:
202-555-0170 167-794-2758
