Feature: phoneNumber without extension (en_US)

[MGatner]

After running into this with the second major identity provider (Stripe first, now Google Firebase) I believe and option for a US phone number that never includes an extension is in order. Both of these providers occasionally reject phone numbers generated by Faker\Provider\en_US\PhoneNumber because of the length of inclusion of the "x".

[mikk150]

I do not think that this should be fakers job, But you can use libphonenumber to fix it in your code

[MGatner]

That works but adds an entire validation library. It may or may not be Faker's job but the phoneNumber provider is already pretty sparse so it doesn't seem like a bad addition. Other providers break the components of the data into parts, e.g.: streetName, streetSuffix, streetAddress so you can fake the portion(s) needed for a particular scenario. This would essentially be the same thing for phone numbers, especially considering that extensions are non-standard.