Formatting Phone Numbers in PHP

Question

I am working on an SMS app and need to be able to convert the sender\'s phone number from +11234567890 to 123-456-7890 so it can be compared to re

Answer 1

I see this being possible using either some regex, or a few substr calls (assuming the input is always of that format, and doesn't change length etc.)

something like

$in = "+11234567890"; $output = substr($in,2,3)."-".substr($in,6,3)."-".substr($in,10,4);

should do it.