preg_match for a telephone number

[dazzclub]

I've been working on a preg_match for an input that would contain a telephone number..

 

As the web is international people may put in their characters such as braces, dashes, or plus or even periods....so in essence they could enther a string like this into my tel input field

 

(00+4) 123.123.123

 

Ive been trying to create a preg_match to expect this, but obviously it doesnt work

 

if (preg_match('/^[0-9][\*( \*)\*.\*+]$/i',$trimmed['tel_number'])) {
	$tel_number = addslashes ($trimmed['tel_number']);
} else {
	$ErrorTel = '<strong class="Error">Please enter your telephone number</strong>';
}

 

if anyone could point me in the right direction that would be great...

 

Thanks

Darren

[ReKoNiZe]

You could just do :

$tel_number= ereg_replace("[^0-9]", "", $tel_number); 

which will strip anything that is not a 0-9.