Django MultiWidget Phone Number Field

Question

I want to create a field for phone number input that has 2 text fields (size 3, 3, and 4 respectively) with the common \"(\" \")\" \"-\" delimiters. Below is my code for th

Answer 1

I took hughdbrown's advise and modified USPhoneNumberField to do what I need. The reason I didn't use it initially was that it stores phone numbers as XXX-XXX-XXXX in the DB, I store them as XXXXXXXXXX. So I over-rode the clean method:

class PhoneNumberField(USPhoneNumberField):
    def clean(self, value):
        super(USPhoneNumberField, self).clean(value)
        if value in EMPTY_VALUES:
            return u''
        value = re.sub('(\(|\)|\s+)', '', smart_unicode(value))
        m = phone_digits_re.search(value)
        if m:
            return u'%s%s%s' % (m.group(1), m.group(2), m.group(3))
        raise ValidationError(self.error_messages['invalid'])