How to format Phone Numbers in PHP ?

In this article, we will learn how to format phone numbers using PHP. When we need to store a phone number then we store the formatting phone number. Using PHP, we can easily format phone numbers.

Approach: In this article, we will format the phone number using the preg_match() method. We can use this method to format phone numbers. This function has special characteristics of finding specified patterns from string. 

PHP code: The following is the complete code to format phone numbers using preg_match().

Output:

202-555-0170
167-794-2758