Define a value in text field

Question

0.00/5 (No votes)

See more:

Hello there,

I have a form I use and it works fine.

If a person fills in his phone number for example: 0525558887 which is the right format in my country, then ths data is submitted to my company's CRM.

I would like to implement a code that will act like pre-defined perfix on that certain field, for example: If a person will fill the form with 0525558887, the data that submitted will be processed as 972525558887 means cutting the '0' and adding 972

Any help or tip is appriciated.

Thanks.

Posted 15-Jun-15 10:21am

Member 11768037

Add a Solution

Comments

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Jun-15 16:58pm

Why would you need this 0? The number is the same. And do you understand why it happens? — it should be pretty apparent...
—SA

2 solutions

Solution 1

Please see my comment to the question. You can use, for example, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10073699/pad-a-number-with-leading-zeros-in-javascript[^].

Alternatively, you can use one or another masked input control and remember the string itself, not just corresponding numeric value. See, for example, http://jsfiddle.net/SO_AMK/SEXAj[^].

—SA

Posted 15-Jun-15 11:04am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Comments

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan 15-Jun-15 17:27pm

Perhaps, using a combobox (select) for the valid country codes (which that zero is converted into) and a textbox (input[type="text|number"]) would solve the riddle. Masked input is also a great way of solving such scenarios. See Solution 2 for that approach.

Also, +5 for masked input types.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Jun-15 17:29pm

Sure; thank you. Afzaal.
—SA

Add a Solution

Add your solution here

Treat my content as plain text, not as HTML

Preview 0

…

Existing Members

Sign in to your account

...or Join us

Download, Vote, Comment, Publish.

Your Email
Password
Forgot your password?

Your Email
This email is in use. Do you need your password?
Optional Password

I have read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
Please subscribe me to the CodeProject newsletters

When answering a question please:

Read the question carefully.
Understand that English isn't everyone's first language so be lenient of bad spelling and grammar.
If a question is poorly phrased then either ask for clarification, ignore it, or edit the question and fix the problem. Insults are not welcome.
Don't tell someone to read the manual. Chances are they have and don't get it. Provide an answer or move on to the next question.

Let's work to help developers, not make them feel stupid.

This content, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-15T11:25:00

Well, my cell phone number is, 0332-*******, but if I had to give it to you I would have to strip out the first zero (leading zero) and add the country code to it, +92. Thus, you can contact me using my phone number, internationally. Of course I can send my cell number, and yes, in my own country the cell number if found to be starting with a zero.

For your scenario, a masked input would be a perfect fit (See the link[^] in Solution 1) because a script that uses the mechanism to prefix the characters is not efficient; believe me I tried it. What if the user doesn't enter the correct input, what if user already has added the zero, or what if he hasn't, or what if he enters the country code himself?

In such cases, I would (if I had to write the application) check a Combobox (select in HTML) control (In most of the software development frameworks), which holds the country codes for the phone numbers. Then, you can ask the user for his own number, without the country code. User would enter the number as, 332-******* (without the zero, or country code or other same stupid standard-based stuff). Then, I can append the +92 and store it in my database or process it. Same should be done here! It makes your life easy. ;)

Most of the giants do that, they ask you for your number without country code and give you a list of country names that you chose from and they append the country code to it.