[kyle4404]

I am calling a phone number variable that is stored in my database and it is formatted with a "." separating the numbers. ie: 555.555.5555

When I echo this variable on a web site one of the macs I am using doesn't allow you to click on the number while the xp machine does. I am thinking I just need to reformat the string to make it something the mac can understand. I tried using str_replace to replace the "." with "-" but I get the same problem.

$ActivevPhone is the variable for the phone number I am echoing.


How would I go about doing this?

Thanks in advance!

[gregwhitworth]

Interesting that str_replace doesn't work, you could do substr and get all the different elements.

$phoneNum = "907.569.0505"
$areacode = substr($phoneNum, 0,3);
$exch = substr($phoneNum,4,3);
$num = substr($phoneNum,8,4);
$phoneNum = $areacode . "-" . $exch . "-" . $num;

You could also use explode using periods, but I think the above method is cleaner. I am sure there is a preg_replace, but I am not too skilled at regex to help you with that.

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Greg

[kyle4404]

Had to tweak it a little bit but what you gave me worked! Apparently the mac has to have the number formatted like (555) 555-5555 in order for skype to recognize it on a website, in order to be clickable. Just made that simple modification and it worked perfectly! Thanks a lot!

[gregwhitworth]

No probs.

[willchen298]

str_replace(".", "-", $ActivevPhone)

kyle4404, on 10 Aug, 2009 - 08:20 AM, said:

I am calling a phone number variable that is stored in my database and it is formatted with a "." separating the numbers. ie: 555.555.5555

When I echo this variable on a web site one of the macs I am using doesn't allow you to click on the number while the xp machine does. I am thinking I just need to reformat the string to make it something the mac can understand. I tried using str_replace to replace the "." with "-" but I get the same problem.

$ActivevPhone is the variable for the phone number I am echoing.


How would I go about doing this?

Thanks in advance!