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practo/libphonenumber-for-php
=============================

Clone of Phone number handling library by Davide Mendolia

5.8.8(12y ago)2029.6k7[2 issues](https://github.com/practo/libphonenumber-for-php/issues)Apache-2.0PHP

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What is it?
===========

[](#what-is-it)

PHP library for parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers.

Highlights of functionality
===========================

[](#highlights-of-functionality)

- Parsing/formatting/validating phone numbers for all countries/regions of the world.
- getNumberType - gets the type of the number based on the number itself; able to distinguish Fixed-line, Mobile, Toll-free, Premium Rate, Shared Cost, VoIP and Personal Numbers (whenever feasible).
- isNumberMatch - gets a confidence level on whether two numbers could be the same.
- getExampleNumber/getExampleNumberByType - provides valid example numbers for all countries/regions, with the option of specifying which type of example phone number is needed.
- isValidNumber - full validation of a phone number for a region using length and prefix information.

Quick Examples
==============

[](#quick-examples)

Let's say you have a string representing a phone number from Switzerland. This is how you parse/normalize it into a PhoneNumber object:

```
$swissNumberStr = "044 668 18 00";
$phoneUtil = PhoneNumberUtil::getInstance();
try {
	$swissNumberProto = $phoneUtil->parse($swissNumberStr, "CH");
	var_dump($swissNumberProto);
} catch (NumberParseException $e) {
	echo $e;
}

```

At this point, swissNumberProto contains:

```
object(libphonenumber\PhoneNumber)#221 (5) {
  ["countryCode":"libphonenumber\PhoneNumber":private]=>
  int(41)
  ["nationalNumber":"libphonenumber\PhoneNumber":private]=>
  int(446681800)
  ["extension":"libphonenumber\PhoneNumber":private]=>
  NULL
  ["italianLeadingZero":"libphonenumber\PhoneNumber":private]=>
  NULL
  ["rawInput":"libphonenumber\PhoneNumber":private]=>
  NULL
}

```

Now let us validate whether the number is valid:

```
$isValid = $phoneUtil->isValidNumber($swissNumberProto);//return true
var_dump($isValid);

```

There are a few formats supported by the formatting method, as illustrated below:

```
// Produces "+41446681800"
echo $phoneUtil->format($swissNumberProto, PhoneNumberFormat::E164) . PHP_EOL;

```

###  Health Score

37

—

LowBetter than 83% of packages

Maintenance18

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity32

Limited adoption so far

Community20

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity66

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 59.6% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4573d ago

### Community

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Tags

validationlibphonenumbermobilephonenumber

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