Hi could it be that the - or a space is upsetting things?
111-111-1111 might be calculated to give -1111 or if the user enters a space it is no longer an integer unless you need it to be an integer, telephone numbers are usually stored as a char type HTH Peter > -----Original Message----- > From: Stuart Felenstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 02 October 2004 13:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Telephone number column not working > > > I have a field "telephone". > Set to type :int: > Length: 11 > It's not working correctly, and not sure if it's my > application or something I have wrongly set up for the > database. > We are talking about U.S. Telephone numbers here, so 7 > digits (area code, exchange, unique number) > > Now it seems everything works up to the storing of 6 > numbers. Once I add the 7th number, everything goes > haywire. The number gets transformed to some totally > different number and / or 0 (zero). > > Now I had set up a validation , which I think would be > correct for a U.S. number: > > [0-9\+\-\/ \(\)\.]+ > > Yet, even if I remove that regexp and let it validate > solely on integers: -{0,1}\d+ > > Nothing. > I thought perhaps enforcing the field to unsigned > might help, but no change. > > One last note, I've "now" added some javascript to > enforce format. This hasn't changed anything , better > or worse. Same behaviour. This is solely for making > sure client enters 111-111-1111 format. Just wanted > to include this in my information. > > Well if anyone has a clue appreicate the help. > > Stuart > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
