Question

I am using jquery and i am trying to validate a cell phone number or home number with the format ### ### ####. # being a place holder for a digit.

At the moment i am using number but that gives problems with spaces, and i’m using minlength 10 because all SA numbers are min 10 digits.

My code already looks as follows:

// Validation of Form
function validateForm() {
    $('#frmMain').validate({
        rules: { 
                 TelNumber: { required: true, number: true, minlength: 10 }
                },
        messages: {
                TelNumber: { required: 'Tel number Required' }
               },

        submitHandler: function (form) {
            $('#btnSubmit').click();

        }
    });
}

Here i found a add on for a US Phone number, if some one could tel me how a US phone number looks maby i can just edit this:

jQuery.validator.addMethod("phoneUS", function(phone_number, element) {
    phone_number = phone_number.replace(/\s+/g, ""); 
    return this.optional(element) || phone_number.length > 9 &&
        phone_number.match(/^(1-?)?(\([2-9]\d{2}\)|[2-9]\d{2})-?[2-9]\d{2}-?\d{4}$/);
}, "Please specify a valid phone number");

$("#myform").validate({
  rules: {
    field: {
      required: true,
      phoneUS: true
    }
  }
});

Answer 1

jQuery.validator.addMethod("phoneSA", function (phone_number, element) {
    phone_number = phone_number.replace(/\s+/g, "");
    return this.optional(element) || phone_number.length > 9 && 
        phone_number.match(/^(0-?)?(\([0-9]\d{2}\)|[0-9]\d{2})-?[0-9]\d{2}-?\d{4}$/); //(0-?) = 0, ([0-9]\d{2}\) = 3 digits from 0-9 , d{4} 4 didgets, $ end of number
}, "Please specify a valid phone number");