Question

I’d like to filter phone numbers out of the users message. The problem is ofcourse that a phone number can be written in different ways. Like:

0612345678
06 123 45 678
[phone]
[phone]

But I’ve got absolutely no clue how to do this and I’m pritty stuck. Can anyone help me a bit?

Thanks!

Edit:
In the meanwhile I came with this regular expression: “/(\d|\s){5,}/im”. This filters every number of at least 5 characters and ignores the spaces. That way, all numbers from my previous example will be filtered.

Answer 1

You need to use regular expressions. This link pertains to python, but you can use these patterns by calling the PHP functions: http://diveintopython3.ep.io/regular-expressions.html#phonenumbers

http://php.net/manual/en/book.pcre.php