Added phone number validation in PHP

CONTRIBUTORS.md

@@ -82,3 +82,8 @@ Programming Language: Java, C, HTML, CSS, Kotlin
 Email: [email protected]
 
 
+Name: [John Braun](https://github.com/jhnbrn90) 
+About: I am doing a PhD in organic chemistry and really like programming. Used Laravel to create some useful tools for our research group, amongst others a chemicals inventory, booking system and supporting information manager.
+Programming Language: PHP, JavaScript
+Email: [email protected]
+

telephone-validator/validator.php

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+** Phone number validator
+** based on the JS validator regex.
+** In this example, 2-123-123-1231 will return true
+*/
+
+class PhoneNumber
+{
+ protected $phoneNumber;
+
+ protected $regex = '/^\d(?:-\d{3}){3}\d$/';
+
+ /**
+ * PhoneNumber constructor.
+ * @param $phoneNumber
+ */
+ public function __construct($phoneNumber)
+ {
+ $this->phoneNumber = $phoneNumber;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Validate the passed in phone number
+ * using the defined regex
+ * @return bool
+ */
+ public function validate()
+ {
+ preg_match($this->regex, $this->phoneNumber, $matches);
+ return !empty($matches);
+ }
+}
+
+// Register a new phone number
+$phoneNumber = new PhoneNumber('2-123-123-1231');
+
+// validate the phone number, returning a boolean
+$phoneNumber->validate();
+
+// return a statement (string) based on the boolean value
+echo $phoneNumber->validate() ? 'Valid phone number :-)' : 'Invalid phone number :-(';
+