Telex finds telephone numbers in text.
Having written something horribly inflexible to deal with European telephone numbers, I wanted to see if I could write something relatively simple - and a little more elegant - that would detect any telephone number with a degree of precision. Telex is certainly more elegant, and probably more useful, than my previous solution, but it's still far from being perfect - it's still too naive, I think. It's an interesting challenge and we'd appreciate your input - thank you.
Telex is used by SeeTheWorld.
For now:
use DanBettles\Telex\Telex;
use DanBettles\Telex\NumberFinder;
use DanBettles\Telex\CountryTelephoneNumberMatcherFactory;
$telex = new Telex(new NumberFinder(), new CountryTelephoneNumberMatcherFactory());
$matches = $telex->findAll('A UK landline number: (01234) 567 890. A UK mobile number: +44 (0)7123 456 789.');- Encode patterns for area codes, and well-structured local numbers, whenever practicable, to increase the precision of the matcher.
- Write more tests, especially for
Telex. - Handle multiple adjacent numbers.
- Add logging to the find methods in Telex to make it easier to identify the causes of mismatches.