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 know the OP is requesting a 123-456-7890 format, but, based on John Dul's answer, I modified it to return the phone number in parentheses format, e.g. (123) 456-7890. This one only handles 7 and 10 digit numbers.

function format_phone_string( $raw_number ) {

    // remove everything but numbers
    $raw_number = preg_replace( '/\D/', '', $raw_number );

    // split each number into an array
    $arr_number = str_split($raw_number);

    // add a dummy value to the beginning of the array
    array_unshift( $arr_number, 'dummy' );

    // remove the dummy value so now the array keys start at 1
    unset($arr_number[0]);

    // get the number of numbers in the number
    $num_number = count($arr_number);

    // loop through each number backward starting at the end
    for ( $x = $num_number; $x >= 0; $x-- ) {

        if ( $x === $num_number - 4 ) {
            // before the fourth to last number

            $phone_number = "-" . $phone_number;
        }
        else if ( $x === $num_number - 7 && $num_number > 7 ) {
            // before the seventh to last number
            // and only if the number is more than 7 digits

            $phone_number = ") " . $phone_number;
        }
        else if ( $x === $num_number - 10 ) {
            // before the tenth to last number

            $phone_number = "(" . $phone_number;
        }

        // concatenate each number (possibly with modifications) back on
        $phone_number = $arr_number[$x] . $phone_number;
    }

    return $phone_number;
}