PhoneNumber requires country code

[internalsystemerror]

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~~Use case, UK business website with enquiry form for UK customers. They are not expected to enter the country code for their phone number. An 11 digit number beginning with 0 is not considered valid. e.g. 0161 123 4567 (calling internationally it would be +44 161 123 4567).~~ The issue only occurs with UK mobile numbers in my testing and the above is actually correct.

Code to reproduce the issue

$phoneNumber = new \Zend\I18n\Validator\PhoneNumber();
$phoneNumber->isValid('07875121234');

Expected results

Considered valid.

Actual results

Considered invalid.

Not sure of an easy fix for this, or whether the docs should state that the country code is expected?

[internalsystemerror]

I believe this is something the Google library takes into account... Looking at an alternative implementation it works as expected: https://giggsey.com/libphonenumber/.

[froschdesign]

@internalsystemerror The current problem: the patterns for phone numbers in zend-i18n are very old. We need a script to update these patterns and have to rework all unit tests which belongs to the PhoneNumber validator.

[froschdesign]

Sorry, this issue report is a feature request and not a bug. The bug are the outdated phone number patterns which are covered in separate issue reports.

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I like this feature request because it would be a great improvement for this component!

[internalsystemerror]

On further investigation, the original example given above is in fact valid, and it's only UK mobiles which have an issue: e.g. 0787 512 1234.

[froschdesign]

@internalsystemerror No problem. We have to write unit tests anyway.

[weierophinney]

This repository has been closed and moved to laminas/laminas-i18n; a new issue has been opened at https://github.com/laminas/laminas-i18n/issues/3.