Phone Number Validation

[phpretard]

(555)"space"123-4567

 

I am trying to validate this.

 

Can't figure what's wrong???

 

if(!ereg("^([0-9]{3}) [0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}$", $homephone)){
echo "No good";
}

 

Can anyone help a brotha out?

 

Thank you!

[rhodesa]

ereg will be depreciated in PHP6

 

if(!preg_match('/^\(\d{3}\) \d{3}-\d{4}$/', $homephone)){
  echo "No good";
}

[radi8]

I got this from the ereg documentation, try this one:

<?php if (ereg("^((\([0-9]{3}\) ?)|([0-9]{3}-))?[0-9]{3}-[0-9]{4}$",$homephone)) ?> 

 

to make it clear:

^ means begin here (startpoint of ereg)

$ means end here (endpoint of ereg)

* stand for endless characters (I want A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and the other characters to apear from 0 to endless

optional you can write {1,5} for

min 1 times a character or max 5 times a

characters instead of *

{1,2} means min 1 time a character and max 2 times a character (optional you can write * intead of {1,2}

{1} stand for max 1 time a character

\ means from here special characters (like .-_$ and so on)

| means OR