Nigerian Phone Number Validator (PHP)

Issues and pull requests welcome.

A PHP module to validate and format a Nigerian phone number as well as deduce the network provider or area code.

NOTE: The network resolution function can't be accurate because Nigeria implemented Mobile Number Portability in 2013, so the number prefix cannot be reliably used to determine operator anymore.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Features
• Contribute
• Run Tests

Installation

You will need >PHP 5.6 and composer.

Install using composer: composer require djunehor/validate_nigerian_phone

In a Laravel project

• If using Laravel 5.5 and above, no further action required
• If you're using Laravel < 5.5, you'll need to register the service provider. Open up config/app.php and add the following to the providers array: Djunehor\Validator\PhoneValidatorServiceProvider::class

Usage

In Laravel

...

/*This checks if the number supplied
*is a valid nigerian number
* either land line or mobile number
*/
public function controllerName(Request $request) {
		$request->validate( [
			'phone' => 'required|ngphone'
		]);
	}
	
//to validate if it's a mobile number
$request->validate( [
			'phone' => 'required|ngphone:mobile'
		]);
		
//to validate if it's a landline
$request->validate( [
			'phone' => 'required|ngphone:land'
		]);		

In a PHP project

If autoload is not enabled, add require vendor/autoload.php to the top of the file, then

use \Djunehor\Validator\NigerianPhone;

$phone = new NigerianPhone('+2348135087966');

// Check if is valid
$phone->isValid(); // true

// Get formatted
$phone->formatted(); // 08135087966

// Get Network
$phone->getNetwork(); // mtn

// Check if is mtn
$phone->isMtn(); // True


// Get network from phone number prefix e.g
$phone->getNetworkByPrefix('0703'); // mtn

Features

Currently implemented

• isValid
• formatted
• getNetwork
• getAreaCode
• isMtn
• isGlo
• isAirtel
• is9mobile
• isSmile
• isMultilinks
• isVisafone
• isNtel
• isStarcomms
• isZoom
• getPrefixesByNetwork
• getNetworkByPrefix
• getAreaCodeByName

Tests

• Run phpunit tests/NigerianPhoneTest.php

Contribute

Check out the issues on GitHub and/or make a pull request to contribute!