Phone number validation in PHP

Question

I need to validate phone number in PHP. I have made following regex, but I also need to it to accept numbers starting with plus char, how can I do that?

^[0-9]$         


        

Answer 1

use this /^(+\d)\s((\d{3})\s*)*\d{3}(-{0,1}|\s{0,1})\d{2}(-{0,1}|\s{0,1})\d{2}$/;