A package for verifying providers for Zimbabwean phone numbers
A package for working with Zimbabwean phone numbers. You can verify if a phone number belongs to a network or get the provider it belongs to., (*1)
You can see it in action here https://zimcell.herokuapp.com, (*2)
composer require zerochip/zimcell
First import the class into your file, (*3)
use Zerochip\Zimcell
refine($cellnumber)
, (*4)
Cleans up the cell number of any legiblity helpers by removing the following:, (*5)
Zimcell::refine('+263772 123 456'); Zimcell::refine('263772 123456'); Zimcell::refine('0772 123 456'); Zimcell::refine('0772123456'); // All the above return 772123456
intlFormat($cellnumber)
, (*6)
Internationalizes the phone number with a "+" prefix., (*7)
Zimcell::intlFormat('0772 123 456'); // return +263772123456
valid($cellnumber)
, (*8)
Checks if the given cellnumber is a valid Zimbabwean number by:, (*9)
ZimCell::valid('0772 123 456'); // returns true ZimCell::valid('0872 12 34 56'); //returns false, refined number starts with an 8 i.e 872123456 Zimcell::valid('0772 12345'); // returns false, refined number will be 8 digits long i.e 77212345
is($provider, $cellnumber)
, (*10)
Verifies if a number belongs to a given provider or service. The case of the provider name does not matter since they are converted to lower case before verifying., (*11)
Zimcell::is('econet', '0772 123 456'); // returns true Zimcell::is('teleCash', '0772 123 456'); // returns false, note use of camelCase for provider name Zimcell::is('netcel', '0772 123 456'); // returns null, netcel is not a supported provider
Supported provider and service names are as follows:, (*12)
getProvider($cellnumber)
, (*13)
returns the provider for a phone number., (*14)
Zimcell::getProvider('0712123456'); // returns netone Zimcell::getProvider('0812123456'); // returns null