PHP - RegEx Matching Phone Numbers with or without country code

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I want to to write a matching method in php that allows me to match phone numbers.

The case I have is that I want to build an app that will pull phone contact numbers from Android devices, in the backend, it will match the phone contacts with current app users, and if there are matching, then add these users as friends, similar to how whatsapp is doing when matching phone contacts with users who have whatsapp app in their devices.

The issue I am having right now is how I can write a RegEx that can match phone numbers with/without country code or leading zeros.

In the app, I am asking for user country and phone number, so for example a friend of mine entered these values : Country : Jordan (+962) Phone Number : 799633999 This in the backend will be stored as +962799633999

If we assume that I am storying my friends number as 0799633999, what is the regEx that I can use that will match 0799633999 with +96279963999 ?

s.webbandit · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-24 04:40:26Z

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Your regex is #(\+\d+|0)(\d{9})$#

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answered Apr 23, 2012 at 12:05

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Ahmad Alkhawaja Over a year ago

But country codes is not always a 3 digits, I was trying to find a generic regex that take into account any country codes

fajter · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-23 13:07:49Z

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You don't do this with regex. Truncate your leading zero, and country code and do regular string comparation.

If contacts can be from various countries, then add country code of one for whom you are looking friends for.

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Ahmad Alkhawaja Over a year ago

I expect that REGEX will truncate that for me and will make the matching by excluding the leading zero and country code. It is just that I cannot guess if the number in the phone contacts comes with leading zero/country code or not, so regex will make sure to exclude that from both strings and do the matching, no?

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:00:53Z

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refer to this link you can use this regex:

^([0|\+[0-9]{1,5})?([7-9][0-9]{9})$

php code:

$re = '/^([0|\+[0-9]{1,5})?([7-9][0-9]{9})$/';
$str = '+2529371208646';

preg_match_all($re, $str, $matches);

print_r($matches);

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