Question

I am using zend form validation for a phone number. and I want, user should enter phone number in these formats:

"[phone]", "01234567891",
"[phone]"

so i am using this regular expression:

"^(?:\+?([0-9]{3})\)?[-. ]?\(?([0-9]{3})\)?[-. ]?([0-9]{10})[-. ]$"

but it is not working.
it is generating error :

Fatal error: Uncaught exception
‘Zend_Validate_Exception’ with message
‘Internal error matching pattern
‘^(?:+?([0-9]{3}))?[-.
]?(?([0-9]{3}))?[-. ]?([0-9]{10})[-.
]$’ against value ‘[phone]”
in
/var/www/html/allindiazend/library/Zend/Validate/Regex.php:117
Stack trace: #0
/var/www/html/allindiazend/library/Zend/Validate.php(98):
Zend_Validate_Regex->isValid(‘[phone]’)

1 /var/www/html/allindiazend/library/Zend/Validate.php(98):

Zend_Validate->isValid(‘[phone]’)

2 /var/www/html/allindiazend/library/Zend/Filter/Input.php(932):

Zend_Validate->isValid(‘[phone]’)

3 /var/www/html/allindiazend/library/Zend/Filter/Input.php(800):

Zend_Filter_Input->_validateRule(Array)

4 /var/www/html/allindiazend/library/Zend/Filter/Input.php(688):

Zend_Filter_Input->_validate() #5
/var/www/html/allindiazend/library/Zend/Filter/Input.php(430):
Zend_Filter_Input->_process() #6
/var/www/html/allindiazend/application/controllers/StaticController.php(148):
Zend_Filter_Input->isValid() #7
/var/www/html/allindi in
/var/www/html/allindiazend/library/Zend/Validate/Regex.php
on line 117

Can any one help me for making this.

thank you in advance.

Answer 1

This expression will match all your 3 examples:

\+?([0-9]{2})-?([0-9]{3})-?([0-9]{6,7})