[SOLVED] stripping out slashes, dashes and parens!

[croakingtoad]

I have a var named $DeveloperTelephone that is being pulled from a database and the string value could be formatted like--

 

540-111-1111

(540) 111-1111

866-111-1111 or 828-111-1111

 

I need to first remove all the dashes and parents and then count the first 10 digits to make that the new value.  So the third value above would become--

 

8661111111

 

How would I accomplish that please and thanks?!

[DarkWater]

$take = array("-", "(", ")", "/", "\\");

$new = str_replace($take, "", $text);

 

 

Replac $text with your variable.

[croakingtoad]

great, but how do I get it to only return the first 10 characters in $new?

[dennismonsewicz]

look here for some great tutorials http://www.tizag.com/phpT/

[DarkWater]

Oh.  Here:

 

$take = array("-", "(", ")", "/", "\\");

$new = substr(str_replace($take, "", $text), 0, 10);