I am working on website that the customer submit his phone number and need to be able to convert the customer's phone number from 0553322111 to 966553322111 so I can use it to compare with the records in a MySQL database.
How would I go about this with PHP?
When the user submit his phone number in the HTML Page
He will submitted as 0553322111.
PHP
<?php
// store the submitted num.
$temp = $_POST['number']; >> 0553322111.
?>
I want to use $temp value that stores the number and modify it to 966553322111 so I can query the records with the new value.
Use preg_replace:
$phone_number = preg_replace('/^0/','966',$phone_number);
/^0/ = 0 at the start of the string
So it basically says, replace 0 at the start of the string with 966
let me know if this works.