Re: How to deal with phone numbers
Re: How to deal with phone numbers
- Subject: Re: How to deal with phone numbers
- From: David LeBer <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:57:29 -0500
On Mar 16, 2005, at 10:13 AM, Jeremy Matthews wrote:
Ok,
The three scenarios I can imagine when dealing with phone/fax
numbers...
1) Create fields for each set of digits (e.g., field for area code,
for the second set of digits, and another for the third) and limit
input by number of characters in those entry fields within the form
2) Create a single, long text field that performs a check prior to the
EC saving to the DB, and warn the user to reformat in a specific
pattern (i.e., xxx-xxx-xxxx)
3) Create a text field and do not attempt to restrict/control, and
reformat during the DB save
So far all of my applications have only required accepting North
American phone numbers (3 + 3 + 4). I usually use option number 3.
A little bit of regex to strip the non numeric string values out, and
then you can just validate by checking if it is a 10 character string.
Similarly, a little bit of regex to reformat for display on the way
back out again. (String.replaceAll() is a wonderful thing :-))
I'm sure there are possible scenarios that it doesn't catch, but so far
it's worked fine.
;david
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David LeBer
Senior Systems Developer
PiMedia
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